Eighty works of art by renowned Italian painter Giorgio Morandi will be displayed at M Woods 798 in Beijing in December. The museum is now in the process of final preparations for the exhibition, Lin Han and Lei Wanying, founders of M Woods 798, announced at a press conference this week.

Born in Bologna, Italy, Morandi (1890-1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker. He is famous for his small still life paintings and landscapes with strong personal colors.

And in the contemporary design world, Morandi's color style has been applied in fashion, household, decoration and other aspects, opening another door for his popularity.

"The Poetics of Stillness" is the first Morandi retrospective to take place in China, and will give a comprehensive review of his 50-year career. It will also include poems related to the artist, according to Victor Wang, curator of the exhibition.

The curator noted that while the Morandi is already well-known worldwide, he rarely left Italy and mostly observed still life from his home. Now, we are faced with the fact that we cannot travel freely, we seem to have become a "still life" ourselves, Wang said, so studying Morandi with this mindset should give us a deeper insight.

With the full support of the Morandi family, the exhibition will present 80 paintings, prints and other works, nearly 20 of which have been exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The MET), the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, Tate Britain, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and other important international art institutions.

In addition, at the press conference, M Woods representatives unveiled key events for next year, including an upcoming Ryuichi Sakamoto exhibition.

The Ryuichi Sakamoto display will be the largest and most comprehensive research-based exhibition by the Japanese composer and artist. It is also the first solo exhibition of his art in China, presenting important works from the past three decades as well as a specially-created field installation. The exhibition is due to take place in March next year at M Woods' Qianliang Hutong venue.

Ryuichi Sakamoto is well known in China for such outstanding works as "The Last Emperor" and "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence," and many Chinese art lovers can't wait to see his work and the Giorgio Morandi exhibition, both of which were "hotly debated before they even opened" on social media.