Picasso, Morandi, and Parmiggiani in Dialogue at Tornabuoni Venice

The Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa hosts "Natures mortes," a curated dialogue between Pablo Picasso, Giorgio Morandi, and Claudio Parmiggiani at the Galleria di Piazza San Marco in Venice. Organized by the Tornabuoni gallery and curated by Cécile Debray—art historian and president of the Musée Picasso since 2021—the exhibition brings together about forty works. The Musée Picasso lent fifteen pieces by the Cubist master. The show spans six sections across two floors, each with only a title and a quote, lacking explanatory texts. An interlude displays objects from Morandi's studio. The oldest work is Picasso's "Nature morte au vase et à l'étoffe verte" (1908); the newest was created by Parmiggiani in early 2026. A reference to Paul Cézanne is introduced through the Stein collectors' influence on Picasso. Morandi's encounter with Futurists Balilla Pratella, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Umberto Boccioni, and Luigi Russolo in 1914 is noted, with his painting "Natura morta" (1914) on loan from Centre Pompidou. The upper-floor sections explore vanitas and presence-erasure, featuring Parmiggiani's "La Lampada di Kafka" (1985) and his Delocazione technique. The exhibition closes with a dialogue between Morandi's 1931 copper engraving and Parmiggiani's monumental object cemetery.