Three masters of modern painting, three approaches to the object. Drawing on a rigorous and tightly focused selection of still lifes by Picasso, Morandi, and Parmiggiani, the exhibition proposes a dialogue around the question of representation— between grasping and veiling reality—through the staging of objects within the laboratory of the studio. From Picasso’s bricolages, assemblages, and deconstructions, which forge a new pictorial language while reasserting the figure of the memento mori; to Morandi’s striking serial compositions of white-painted bottles arranged on studio shelves and elevated into timeless, metaphysical motifs; and finally to Parmiggiani’s works, smoke shadows of objects that pose profound questions of disappearance and absence, reformulating contemporary Vanitas.

Catalogue with texts by Cécile Debray, Lorenzo Balbi, and Bruno Corà.