LUCIO FONTANA:
VENICE/NEW YORK
June 4 – September 24, 2006
In 1961, Fontana worked on a group of canvases which
constitute an episode of exceptional aesthetic clarity:
the Venice series: each canvas measures 1.5 meters square
and is remarkable for its thickly layered paint, often
punctured or cut, with glass inserts. Their Baroque
richness was greeted in 1961 with enthusiasm by a surprised
public. In the same year, the Venice series was exhibited
at the Martha Jackson Gallery, New York. It was Fontana’s
first solo exhibition in the United States, signaling
him at once as a new 'master' of the international avant-garde.
Fontana was, in turn, fascinated by New York, and while
the Venice series was shown there he began sketching
the city, which came to form the basis for the metal
works he produced upon his return: the New York series.
The exhibition catalogue, published by the Peggy Guggenheim
Collection, comprises essays by Enrico Crispolti, Luca
Massimo Barbero, Paolo Campiglio, and Barbara Ferriani.
The exhibition traveled to the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum, New York, from October 10, 2006 to January,
21 2007.
The exhibition is organized in collaboration with the
Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milan, and the support of:
Regione del Veneto, Istituto nazionale per il Commercio
Estero, Banca Aletti, The Murray & Isabella Rayburn
Foundation (through the generosity of Maurice Kanbar),
Alitalia, and Tratto. The programs of the Peggy Guggenheim
Collection are made possible by the Peggy Guggenheim
Collection Advisory Board, Institutional Patrons and
Intrapresæ Collezione Guggenheim.
LUIGI ONTANI: VETRIETEREIETEROCLITI
September 7 – December 31, 2006
Throughout her life, Peggy Guggenheim demonstrated a
certain curiosity with regards to the “dream-like
quality” of glass and its myriad artistic applications.
The collaboration between the glass masters of Murano
and artists such as Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Max
Ernst, and others, was in part inspired and organized
by Peggy herself. It took shape in the 1950s stemming
from the initiatives of the Fucina degli Angeli studio,
and remains even today the clearest and most fruitful
testimony of the visions and the potential of glass
as a medium. On the wake of this fascination with glass,
Luigi Ontani accepted the invitation to exhibit, in
Peggy’s bedroom, three new glass sculptures, which
were born from his long collaboration with the Murano
masters Silvano Signoretto and Romano Donà. The
artist has expressed that the presentation of these
previously unexhibited works, fruits of a year and a
half of work, “is like playing with Peggy’s
legend, an attempt to reawaken a dream, in the room
designated for dreaming, and to continue to feed it
through fantastical and playful visions.”
The programs of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection are
made possible by the Peggy Guggenheim Collection Advisory
Board, Institutional Patrons and Intrapresæ Collezione
Guggenheim.
JEAN-MICHEL OTHONIEL: PEGGY’S
NECKLACE
April 29 – May 29, 2006
The installation by Jean-Michel Othoniel consists of
seven Murano glass sculptures that will adorn the façade
of Palazzo Venier dei Leoni overlooking the Grand Canal.
The largest of these takes the form of a necklace. It
will be installed the full height of the palazzo and
visitors will walk over and through it as they pass
from the Grand Canal terrace to the museum galleries.
The 9-meter high work will form, with 4 other sculptures,
a cross ornamented with multi-colored glass pearls.
The installation is made possible by Nicolas Hélion
e Emmanuel Perrotin. The programs of the Peggy Guggenheim
Collection are made possible by the Peggy Guggenheim
Collection Advisory Board, Institutional Patrons and
Intrapresæ Collezione Guggenheim.
HOMAGE TO MARIO NIGRO
April 22 – May 21, 2006
The art of Mario Nigro (Pistoia, 1917–Livorno,
1992), one of the most dedicated protagonists of Italian
artistic experiment in the second half of the twentieth
century, is presented by curator Luca Massimo Barbero
through a small cross-section of his work, with specific
attention to the period of the late 1940s to the mid
1960s. Gianni Nigro, President of the Archivio Mario
Nigro, generously endorsed the exhibition by donating
two paintings in tempera on paper by Mario Nigro that
will benefit the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Foundation. Both of them will be exhibited: Untitled,
1949 (from the Black Panel Series) and Untitled, 1950
(from the Checkered Panels Series), These works indicate
the main thrust of the show, which examines the problematics
of Nigro’s artistic, conceptual and stylistic
research.
The exhibition catalogue, published by the Archivio
Mario Nigro, includes essays by Gianni Nigro, Germano
Celant, and Luca Massimo Barbero.
The exhibition is organized in collaboration with the
Archivio Mario Nigro, Milan.The programs of the Peggy
Guggenheim Collection are made possible by the Peggy
Guggenheim Collection Advisory Board, Institutional
Patrons and Intrapresæ Collezione Guggenheim.
VENICE 1948–1986: THE
ART SCENE
PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE ARCHIVIOARTE FONDAZIONE MODENA
February 5 – May 21, 2006
Curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, the exhibition presents
unpublished and remarkable photographs that will take
visitors on an extraordinary journey through the artistic
milieu of the Venice Biennale from 1948 to 1986, with
artists such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Salvador
Dalí, Emilio Vedova, Lucio Fontana, and Robert
Rauschenberg. In their time, these photographs were
featured in magazines such as Time and Life. Nowadays,
this photo-reportage forms a remarkable contribution
to the history of postwar culture. The exhibition features
over 150 photographs selected from 12,000 negatives
acquired by the ArchivioArte Fondazione—a new
project undertaken by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio
di Modena—from the Venetian photographic agency
Cameraphoto.
The exhibition catalogue, published by the Fondazione
Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, includes texts by Luca
Massimo Barbero, Sileno Salvagnini, and Enrico Crispolti
among others.
The exhibition is organized in collaboration with the
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena.
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