Five postwar Italian artists, presented in the exhibition galleries, with an original selection of works that characterize the art of Lucio Fontana (1899-1968), Piero Dorazio (1927-2005), Enrico Castellani (b. 1930), and Paolo Scheggi (1940-1971), and with an additional 'study' exhibition of the work of Rodolfo Arico (1930-2002). An exhibition narrative that looks afresh at the notion of Italian painting in the period of the waning of Art informel, evident in the career of a master such as Fontana. The other artists, deploying an emerging pictorial language peculiar to the 60s, offer an international audience a rich vein of Italian creativity, predicated on a new concept of the art of painting, that proposed the chromatic and symbolic force of the monochrome as in both visual and conceptual terms.

Lucio Fontana, Spatial Concept (Concetto spaziale), 1951. Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Hannelore B. and Rudolph B. Schulhof Collection, bequest of Hannelore B. Schulhof, 2012

A rainbow-colored collective installation is the outcome of Kids Creative Lab, an innovative project between Art and Fashion conceived jointly by the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and OVS, Italy’s best known fast fashion clothing retailer. The work will meander through several of the museum’s exhibition galleries. The ‘artists’ of this enjoyable and unusual work are the children of Italy’s Primary Schools, who will work with an Artist’s Kit to make three-dimensional felt objects. These will then be united in one huge work of ‘sculpture’ at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.
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This is the sixth in the series of annual exhibitions that has brought works from the
Guggenheim collections in Venice and New York to the town of Vercelli. The theme will be
the 1960s, a decade of fundamental change in American and European art, presented in
the form of a transatlantic dialogue between major artists, and drawing upon the resources of the Guggenheim collections. New content, styles and parameters of artistic production, amounting to new dimensions of visual culture, are highlighted by the parallel presence of works by major artists of the decade, Jean Dubuffet, Antoni Tàpies, Lucio Fontana, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol.

Andy Warhol, Flowers, n.d. Private collection, Venice