Robert Morris (Kansas City, Missouri, 1931– Kingston, New York, 2018)
From 1982 to 2002, Robert Morris created several works at the Gori Collection, which are documented in the book A Pathway Towards the Center of the Knot (Fattoria di Celle Editions, 1995). After completing the lengthy construction of the Labyrinth (1982), the artist wrote to Giuliano Gori, asking if he could return to Celle to conduct a new research project in a concentrated and isolated environment. He was provided with a room converted to studio use on the first floor of the fattoria building, where he worked intensely on his first bronze frames – left empty inside – which would be titled “Psicomachia” (1984).
A Morris family visit to Celle in 1993 sparked a chain of projects that would take shape during the artist’s repeated stays until 2000. During this time, Morris completed the panels inside the frames, created two other installations in the fattoria, the room of untitled felt pieces in Casapeppe and another artwork in the Park, and also held a solo exhibition titled Tempora Caeca (1995) at Casapeppe.
