Landscape (The wood)

Giorgio Morandi is represented in the Jesi collection by an extraordinary series of landscapes and still lifes. An extraordinary figure of a solitary artist, who never moved from his city of origin and who – with rare exceptions – knew contemporary masters only from books, Morandi deepened throughout his entire existence a very personal poetics centered on a few, modest subjects, and marked by intellectual speculation, to the utmost expressive purity and absolute formal rigor, remaining far from the revolutionary din of the avant-gardes and feeling himself attracted to an entirely personal degree by the suggestions coming from Futurism, Metaphysics, Plastic Values and Novecentist currents.

The Bosco belongs to the years of Cézanne’s discovery, Henry Rousseau and Cubism: a gray-green curtain of tall trees swaying in the wind without man, house, sky or other visual accident interrupting its crowded spatiality.