”One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see.”
Giorgio Morandi

This summer’s major exhibition at Artipelag in Stockholm introduces to contemporary British ceramicist and author Edmund de Waal (b.1964, Nottingham) and Italian painter Giorgio Morandi (b.1890, d.1964, Bologna) via dialogues on still life and the magic in simplicity.
Edmund de Waal became known to a wider audience in connection with his acclaimed book The Hare With Amber Eyes, released in 2010. His ceramic installations are known in today’s art world for their uniquely interesting expressions. Giorgio Morandi’s productions were generally of ceramic objects in still life formats, where the external conditions shape the work’s motifs. However, it is not ceramics that unites the two artists, but rather the encouragement of mindful viewing and contemplation.
The exhibition highlights fifty works from Morandi’s career, produced between 1921 to 1963. The paintings are complemented by drawings, etchings and watercolors, which illustrate Morandi’s artistic range.