Ennio Morlotti Works from Merlini Collection at Museo Morandi

Twenty-five unframed works by Ennio Morlotti (Lecco, 1910 – Milan, 1992) are on display at Bologna's Museo Morandi, drawn from the Merlini collection. The collection previously featured in a 2011 Venice exhibition and supports museum synergies for art-historical research. The show spans the 1940s to the 1980s, including oils and pastels that reveal Morlotti's stylistic evolution. He consistently regarded Giorgio Morandi as a key reference, while also engaging with Pablo Picasso (e.g., Still Life, 1948) and Paul Cézanne (evident in Three Nudes, reminiscent of Cézanne's bathers). Later works like Rocks exhibit a Morandi-like seriality focused on a single subject, which curators interpret as a search for deeper penetration of nature and time. The exhibition is curated by Fabrizio D'Amico and Mariella Gnani, running until January 8, 2017.