This exhibition presents "After Morandi", a project by American photographer Gary Green.

The Morandi Museum is the largest and most relevant public collection dedicated to Giorgio Morandi.

Curated by Steve Bisson, Chair of the Department of Photography, this exhibition (opening. October 10th, 2025) presents “After Morandi”, a project by American photographer Gary Green. More than a homage, it is an intimate dialogue with the legacy of Giorgio Morandi, one of the most influential painters of the twentieth century. Green does not imitate Morandi’s canvases but instead evokes his gaze—his quiet poetics of form, repetition, and silence.
The project was born in 2014, during Green’s sabbatical from Colby College in Maine. A visit to Casa Morandi in Bologna became a personal pilgrimage, where a handful of photographs planted the seeds of a larger body of work. Soon after, in Assisi, Green began constructing modest still lifes from found objects—bottles, tiles, stones—photographed outdoors in natural light. Later, at Yaddo in the United States, the full resonance of the project emerged: it was not about place, but about Morandi’s spirit, his way of seeing.

Published in Bologna by L’Artiere, the book After Morandi crystallizes this journey into a meditative object, where photography becomes an ode. Green describes his practice as akin to meditation: slow, repetitive, nourished by reflection in the interval between exposure and print. In his images, the commonplace transcends itself to become rhythm, relationship, atmosphere.

At Casa Morandi, Green’s photographs return to their point of origin, creating a space of encounter between two artists, two mediums, and two epochs. They remind us that attention to the simplest forms can reveal beauty, memory, and presence—an art of seeing that speaks quietly, yet profoundly.

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