Steve Bisson, Chair of Photography, invited to curate exhibition at Morandi Museum — PCA

The Morandi Museum is the most important and most related public assortment devoted to Giorgio Morandi.

Curated by Steve Bisson, Chair of the Department of Photography, this exhibition (opening. October tenth, 2025) presents “After Morandi”, a undertaking by American photographer Gary Green. More than a homage, it’s an intimate dialogue with the legacy of Giorgio Morandi, probably the most influential painters of the 20th century. Green doesn’t imitate Morandi’s canvases however as an alternative evokes his gaze—his quiet poetics of kind, repetition, and silence.
The undertaking was born in 2014, throughout Green’s sabbatical from Colby College in Maine. A go to to Casa Morandi in Bologna grew to become a private pilgrimage, the place a handful of pictures planted the seeds of a bigger physique of labor. Soon after, in Assisi, Green started establishing modest nonetheless lifes from discovered objects—bottles, tiles, stones—photographed open air in pure gentle. Later, at Yaddo within the United States, the complete resonance of the undertaking emerged: it was not about place, however about Morandi’s spirit, his method of seeing.

Published in Bologna by L’Artiere, the ebook After Morandi crystallizes this journey right into a meditative object, the place pictures turns into an ode. Green describes his observe as akin to meditation: sluggish, repetitive, nourished by reflection within the interval between publicity and print. In his photographs, the commonplace transcends itself to change into rhythm, relationship, ambiance.

At Casa Morandi, Green’s pictures return to their level of origin, creating an area of encounter between two artists, two mediums, and two epochs. They remind us that focus to the only varieties can reveal magnificence, reminiscence, and presence—an artwork of seeing that speaks quietly, but profoundly.

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