A few weeks ago, Galleria Mattia De Luca opened “Time Suspended II,” an ambitious show of work by Giorgio Morandi that brings together more than sixty works from across Morandi’s career on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the artist’s death. Even more compellingly, the show is staged in a 19th-century townhouse on East 63rd Street off Fifth Avenue. We caught up with Mattia De Luca—who curated the show along with Marilena Pasquali, founder and director of the Giorgio Morandi Study Center in Bologna—to hear more about the exhibition and what Morandi still has to teach us.

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The peg for this show is the 60th anniversary of Morandi’s death. What do you view to be his lasting legacy?

Morandi’s legacy is closely related to the exceptional nature of his persona from both an artistic and human point of view, which in his case are profoundly connected. Morandi distanced himself from the prevailing avant-garde movement and the most famous experiments of the 20th Century, maintaining very little contact with other painters of his time and dedicating his entire life to a personal and rigorous vision of art in the solitude and intimacy of his bedroom........

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