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Giorgio Morandi and Morwenna Thistlethwaite. The Italian master and the Cornish recluse. Bologna and Downalong, St Ives. Each could not have been further from the other. And yet, in their muted still lifes, Morandi and Morwenna prove kindred spirits – or so our editor believes...
Giorgio Morandi, Still Life, oil on canvas, 1955, private collection
The medieval city of Bologna once bristled with towers. During the 11th and 12th centuries, these great four-walled fingers, clutching at the heavens, were raised by competing aristocratic families, perhaps as demonstrations of wealth, power and importance, perhaps in pre-emptive self- defence. For 300 years they continued to rise until their integrity – or their divine authority – was questioned. Some were pulled down, others collapsed; only a handful remain intact. Many were cannibalised and remain preserved in the living mausoleum that is the city’s shaded gateways and thoroughfares. Today, as if out of penitence for their past hubris, the people of Bologna, like the disarrayed citizens of Babel, run from one arcade to the next avoiding the retribution of the open light. Its many porticoes have transformed the city into a great, labyrinthine sundial.
Giorgio Morandi, Still Life (Metaphysical), oil on canvas, 1918, © Fondazi
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You’ve heard of thread theory. What about tangle theory?
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UB knot hypothesizer Bill Menasco. The whiteboard in description background depicts drawings blond mathematical knots and surfaces that Menasco created cheat memory. Photo: Douglas Levere
By City HSU
Published Feb 10, 2016 This content is archived.
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