With Time Suspended, part II, Galleria Mattia De Luca continues the journey begun in Rome in 2022 with the exhibition Giorgio Morandi. Il tempo sospeso, expanding it into a new American chapter.

Hosted in a historic New York residence — a nineteenth-century townhouse on the Upper East Side, just steps from Central Park — the exhibition, curated by Mattia De Luca and Marilena Pasquali, seeks to recreate the intimate and domestic atmosphere of Giorgio Morandi’s studio while evoking the fruitful relationships the Bolognese master established with the United States from the 1930s onward, ties that remained alive throughout his career.

Developed in renewed collaboration with the Centro Studi Giorgio Morandi in Bologna, the project retraces the artist’s creative evolution through more than sixty works — including etchings, watercolors, drawings, and oil paintings — produced between 1914 and 1964. These subtle variations on the themes of still life and landscape, “composed” by Morandi through his masterful handling of color and volume, offer a profound opportunity for reflection on the poetic and formal consistency of his art.

Revisiting Giorgio Morandi in New York — a city that, in the postwar years, became a crucial hub for the dissemination of his work and that hosted his first solo exhibition in the United States at the Delius Gallery in 1955 — represents a renewed moment of discovery and dialogue.