Marcello Morandini - Morandini - 2020

Works created by Marcello Morandini from 1964 to 2018, the Catalogue Raisonné constitutes the first editorial project of the Marcello Morandini Foundation, established in 2016 by the artist himself and thanks to the generous contribution of two prominent collectors, whose dream was to see realized an open, accessible, and inclusive exhibition space in which his works would be showcased.
For completeness and scientific accuracy, the reasoned catalog unmistakably traces the artistic path of Marcello Morandini, becoming an essential and up-to-date tool for understanding his work.
It opens with a critical text by curator Marco Meneguzzo and an essay by Serge Lemoine, a French art historian who has long tracked Morandini's artistic path, and it includes a critical anthology of texts that accompanied the many exhibitions in which the artist presented his research and studies on movement in space—torsion, tension, expansion, overlap—translated into the world of geometry through the use of a two-dimensional and three-dimensional language, with the certainty of mathematics.
The cataloging section is the centerpiece of the volume and presents each work through photographic documentation and a technical and bibliographic-exhibition data sheet.
The curatorial choice opted for a division of the corpus into decades, within which are listed, in chronological order, works, drawings, multiples, and projects. The sequence of the decades is punctuated by an introductory text by Morandini himself and by large-format images that reproduce selected works. They narrate his world of forms, which range from graphics to sculpture, from architecture to design, in an absolutely original, coherent, and recognizable way.


Marco Meneguzzo, professor at the Brera Academy, art critic and curator of exhibitions, has published books and monographs on modern and contemporary art.

536 pages
2020, bilingual edition (Italian-English)
25 × 37 cm, ill. in color and black and white.
In cellophane and with a cardboard case, small dent on the cardboard case visible in the photo.