ALL
IN THE PRESENT MUST BE TRANSFORMED: MATTHEW BARNEY AND
JOSEPH BEUYS
6 June – 2 September 2007
All in the Present Must Be Transformed: Matthew Barney
and Joseph Beuys’ will examine key affinities
between the two artists, who, though separated by generation
and geography, share many aesthetic and conceptual concerns.
The exhibition will focus on their metaphoric use of
materials, their interest in metamorphosis, their employment
of narrative structures, and the relationship between
action and documentation in their work. The show's contents
will be drawn largely from the Guggenheim Museum's permanent
collection and will pair a selection of drawings and
vitrines and sculptures by both artists. The presentation
will also examine the performative side of their practices,
demonstrating the way both have theatricalized their
sculptural production. Curated by Nancy Spector, the
exhibition will premiere at the Deutsche Guggenheim
in Berlin before traveling to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection
in Venice during the 2007 Venice Biennale.
ROSSO. THE PROTEAN FORM: MEDARDO
ROSSO
22 September 2007 – 6 January 2008
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is organizing an exhibition
of sculpture by Medardo Rosso (1858-1928). Paola Mola
and Fabio Vittucci will curate the exhibition in collaboration
with the Rosso Museum in Barzio (Como), where the artist's
estate and archive has been preserved by three generations
of his descendants, and currently by his great-granddaughter
Danila Marsure Rosso. The exhibition will reassess Rosso's
work in its multifaceted complexity, proposing Medardo
Rosso as a precursor of the avant-garde rather a Symbolist
emerging from the Scapigliata culture of Milan. The
exhibition will be accompanied by a scholarly catalogue
with texts by Paola Mola, Fabio Vitucci and Danila Marsure
Rosso.
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