June 7 – October 15, 1995
On June 7 the exhibition Alberto Giacometti: From the Guggenheim and Nasher Collections opens at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. This is an espanded version of the exhibition of sculptures by Giacometti from the Guggenheim collections that opened at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in February 1995. The exhibition reopens with additional works loaned from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and from the Patsy and Raymond Nasher Collection, Dallas, Texas.
The loans from the Nasher collection form part of wider agreement between the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Nasher Foundation for the long-term loan of sculptures for the Guggenheim’s programs in New York and Venice. In addition to six works from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, the show will include three busts of the artist’s brother Diego (1954) and Venice Woman III from the Nasher Collection. The latter is one of a series of standing female figures made by Giacometti for the French pavilion of the 1956 Venice Biennale. Loans from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, consisting of two sculptures (The Nose and Spoon Woman) as well as three drawings and a painting (Diego), complete the exhibition.
Giacometti’s early Parisian work (1920s) and his ‘Surrealist’ period, from 1930 to 1935, are represented by works such as Spoon Woman, Woman with Her Throat Cut, Walking Woman and Project for a City Square. Works of a later date exemplify Giacometti’s characteristic mature style of the post-II World War period and illustrate several of his favorite themes: the standing figure, the bust, the fragment, and the portrait. The show includes works in several different media, including plaster, bronze, wood, paper and oil on canvas.
The cultural programmes of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection are supported annually by the Regione Veneto and by Intrapresæ Collezione Guggenheim: Arclinea, Aermec, Bisazza Mosaico, Cartiere Miliani Fabriano, Gruppo 3M Italia, Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Impresa Gadola, Luciano Marcato, Permasteelisa, Pomellato, Reggiani Illuminazione, Rex Built-In, Sàfilo Group, and Swatch.