To Morandi
Hand-built stoneware vases inspired by Morandi’s paintings, organically formed by folding and joining clay slabs to capture the mood, the disorienting perspectives and the colors through an imagined filter.
To Morandi is my response to feedback I received on my previous series, Bevy. When I made the Bevy pieces I received the same comment on four different occasions: "those remind me of Morandi's paintings". This left me unsettled because the Bevy pieces were about building forms and surfaces. If it was actually Morandi's paintings that were my inspirations I would have made entirely different pieces. So I made the pieces you see below.
In these works my interest was to capture the mood of his paintings rather than the subjects he painted. I went to the Center for Italian Modern Art in Lower Manhattan to see his earlier, less well-known works. Their perspectives were disorienting. The assemblies of bottles made me feel like I was viewing high-rise buildings. The image did not offer me the object's color, but looked to have a film or a filter, like Instagram would offer.
2016
Ceramic
To Morandi was exhibited during Milan Design Week at Rubelli showroom in Milan in 2016.
