Some 10,000 visitors attended Time Suspended, part II, private dealer Mattia De Luca’s show of Giorgio Morandi’s work, in a townhouse on the Upper East Side last fall. That show was the result of De Luca’s lifelong fascination with the Italian painter and printmaker, and built upon his earlier show Time Suspended, held in Rome in 2022. Morandi is a connoisseur’s artist. David Rockefeller had one that sold for $4.3 million, an auction record. But Morandi was equally beloved by artists as diverse as Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Ryman, and Peter Doig. Earlier this week, Mattia and I spoke about putting those shows together, and the enduring appeal of an artist who made an entire universe out of everyday items. This conversation has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity.