Istituzione Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, with the collaboration and scientific support of Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, presents an exhibition initiated and organized by Tornabuoni Art, with the exceptional participation of Musée national Picasso-Paris and curated by Cécile Debray, President of the museum.

Three masters of modern art, three distinct approaches to the object. Drawing on a focused and carefully curated selection of still lifes by Pablo Picasso(1881-1973), Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964), and Claudio Parmiggiani (b. 1943), the exhibition opens a dialogue on representation itself; on capturing and mediating reality through the staging of objects within the laboratory of the artist’s studio.

From Picasso’s bricolage, assemblages and deconstructions, which develop a new pictorial language while reviving the subject of memento moriand Morandi’s surprising and serial compositions of ordinary bottles arranged and rearranged on the shelves of the artist’s studio as timeless and metaphysical motifs, to Parmiggiani’s works—smoke-shadows of objects—all are reflections on absence and disappearance, offering a contemporary reinterpretation of the Vanitas.

Through poetic and formal correspondences between the works, the curator invites visitors on a contemplative journey through the still life as a pictorial genre, opening up a reflection on time, reality, and art, as well as on the work of three major artists, past and present.