Robert Morris can to all intentsbe considered a citizen of Prato. His special relationship with this town began many years ago through the friendship with one of the most important collectors of contemporary art and a long-time active member of our community. The relationship continued into the new millennium with the church furnishings (altar, ambo and candelabra) this important artist created for the cathedral of Santo Stefano, the patron saint of the town, and the tribute to Donatello of a sculpture, Quattro per Donatello, on show in the cloister of the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo. It continues today with the work in progress of the Prato Roundabout project, a large fountain inspired by Michelangelo’s project in Rome’s Piazza del Campidoglio and initially conceived for a roundabout at one of Prato’s most important road junctions...

The Robert Morris show was one of the first exhibition projects I thought of on becoming director of the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art in Prato.

The number of Morris’s works throughout Tuscany and his familiarity with this land for the last thirty years were the first reasons for my choice, along with the personal acquaintance I struck up with this important American artist more than ten years ago during the major exhibition he realized at the Centre Pompidou, where I was working at the time, made me want to embark on such an ambitious venture. Anyway, the main reason was certainly the extraordinary quality of the work of Morris, whose strong identity as an artist and art theoretician has influenced most of the artistic movements of the late twentieth century.

Drawing from the Heart of Darkness: Robert Morris’s Blind Time

Jean-Pierre Criqui

Blind Time Drawings

The Third Man

Donald Davidson

Writing with Davidson: Some Afterthoughts after Doing Blind Time IV" Drawing with Davidson

Robert Morris

Bio-Bibliography

Desdemona Ventroni