Modalności obrazowego czasu. Morandi i fotografia
Modalities of Pictorial Time. Morandi and Photography

Summary/Abstract: This text attempts to use photographic images as source testimony concerning the creative process employed by Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964) and to use them as a comparative medium to trace. A series of photographs taken by Luigi Ghirri in 1989 reveals the phenomenological parameters of a studio that was the artist’s living space and the locus of his painting practice. In the photographer’s view, the studio has the characteristics of an optical chamber for observing phenomena related to the objects of study. The main part of the essay focuses on a comparative analysis of the 1964 Still Life with a photograph of objects related to this work. While a photograph has the temporal characteristics of a testimony, a painted image, due to its immersion in the manual procedure of its execution, possesses a temporality that accentuates the present-time quality of the perceptual event.

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