From March 13, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection’s galleries, adjacent to the exhibition Postwar. Italian Protagonists (February 23 – April 15 2013) curated by Luca Massimo Barbero and dedicated to five major figures of Italian art after World War II, host Gianni Mattioli Collection. Early 20th Century Italian Art. In addition to the celebrated Mattioli Collection, […]
Postwar. Italian Protagonists
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
23 February – 15 April 2013
Lucio Fontana (1899- 1968), Piero Dorazio (1927-2005), Enrico Castellani (b. 1930), Paolo Scheggi (1940-1971) and Rodolfo Aricò (1930-2002) are the five pioneering artists of the exhibition Postwar. Italian Protagonists, at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection from 23 February until 15 April 2013. Curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, the exhibition is a re-reading of Italian art in the wake of the Informel painting that prevailed in the 1950s.
2012 at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection closed with 372,273 visitors recorded over 315 days of opening, an average of 1,182 visitors per day. In addition 5,888 students and 422 teachers participated in the museum’s educational programme ‘A Scuola di Guggenheim’, 1,500 children attended the Sunday ‘Kids Day’ workshops, and a further 7,500 people visited the […]
CAPOGROSSI. A Retrospective
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
september 29, 2012 –february 10, 2013
With CAPOGROSSI. A Retrospective, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection pays tribute to a major figure in the first generation of post war artists who, with his painting Surface 210 (1957), has been represented in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation since 1958.
Seeing the World Within: Charles Seliger in the 1940s
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
9 June – 16 September 2012
This exhibition brings to Venice and to Italy for the first time a corpus of works—thirty‐three paintings and drawings—by American Surrealist painter, Charles Seliger (1926‐2009), working in the 1940s, the beginning of his career, that trace his rapid development from youthful enthusiasm and talent to a mature artist, confident in his own, original artistic vision.
Cycling, Cubo‐Futurism and the 4th Dimension. Jean Metzinger’s “At the Cycle‐Race Track”
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
June 9 – September 16, 2012
Opening June 9 (through September 16, 2012), the exhibition Cycling, Cubo‐Futurism and the 4th Dimension. Jean Metzinger’s “At the Cycle‐Race Track” focuses on a painting acquired by Peggy Guggenheim in 1945 and now permanently on view in her museum in Venice.
The Giants of the Avant-Garde: Miró, Mondrian, Calder and the Guggenheim Collection
Arca, Chiesa San Marco, Vercelli
March 3 – June 10 2012
From March 3 to June 10 the Arca in Vercelli hosts the exhibition The Giants of the Avant- Garde: Miró, Mondrian, Calder and the Guggenheim Collection, the fifth of a successful series conceived by the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, for the Comune of Vercelli. This exhibition includes over 30 works, of both painting and sculpture, chosen to survey the careers of these three giants of the avant-garde: Miró, Mondrian, and Calder.
European Art: 1949-1979
Marion R. Taylor: Paintings, 1966-2001
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
February 29 – May 6, 2012
From February 29 through May 6, 2012 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents European Art, 1949-1979: a selection of works from the museum’s holdings of postwar European painting and sculpture, largely from the period 1949-79, will be installed in the museum’s temporary exhibition galleries. This exhibition documents how Peggy Guggenheim continued to collect even after her withdrawal from New York, center of the artistic avant-garde, in 1947, the year she closed her museum-gallery Art of This Century. This exhibition is therefore a celebration of Peggy Guggenheim’s Venetian life and her residence in Palazzo Venier dei Leoni.
Themes&Variations. Script and Space
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
15 October 2011 – 1 January 2012
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents once again Themes&Variations.
First conceived in 2002 by Luca Massimo Barbero, this is the third edition of an innovative but now habitual exhibition formula that offers visitors fresh perceptions of the museum’s collections, whether known or less known, by means of a dialogue with works by more contemporary artists from other collections.
a fund-raising campaign to made possible the purchase of two pairs of earrings that once belonged to Peggy and which were created for her by Yves Tanguy and by Alexander Calder
Ileana Sonnabend. An italian portrait
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
May 29 – October 2, 2011
Ileana Sonnabend (Bucharest 1914 – New York, 2007) was a formidable gallerist and collector of contemporary art. She was the first wife of Leo Castelli.
Italian Art in the Guggenheim Collections
Arca, Church of San Marco, Vercelli
26 February – 5 June 2011
From 26 February to 5 June 2011, the Arca of Vercelli presents the exhibition 1900-1961. Italian Art in the Guggenheim Collections, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero.
Following the trilogy of exhibitions dedicated to Peggy Guggenheim which in the course of three years has brought to Vercelli 120,000 visitors—thus confirming its full recognition as a ‘Città d’Arte’—a new cooperative agreement for exhibitions between the Piedmont Region, the Comune of Vercelli, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection brings to Vercelli more than 40 works of Italian artists, represented in the collections of the Guggenheim museums in New York and Venice.