Venue:
Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

Curators:
Luca Massimo Barbero and Susan Davidson.

Artists:
William Baziotes, Hans Bellmer, Anré Breton, Jimmy Ernst, Max Ernst, Leonor Fini, Sam Francis, Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Gerome Kamrowski, Frans Kline, Willem de Kooning, René Magritte, Matta, Joan Miró, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Richard Pousette-Dart, Mark Rothko, Theodore Stamos, David Smith, Yves Tanguy, Dorothea Tanning, Mark Tobey.

Exhibition description:
The exhibition presented forty-three paintings and works on paper from the Pietzsch Collection, Berlin. The display explored the idea of ‘affinity,’ or the similarity in spirit and taste between Mr. and Mrs. Pietzsch’s collection and that of Peggy Guggenheim. The Pietzsch’s decision to collect European Surrealism as well as the work of young American artists from the New York School mirrors the two areas of particular strength of Peggy Guggenheim’s collection. Curators Luca Massimo Barbero and Susan Davidson collaborated to create different types of displays. Barbero selected the Surrealist works, which were installed in the galleries of Palazzo Venier dei Leoni alongside comparable paintings from the museum’s permanent collection. Davidson selected works by early American Abstract Expressionists for exhibition in the new wing galleries.

Catalogue:
Sharp, Jasper. Affinities: Works from the Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection.

Bi-lingual catalogue in English and German, includes foreword by Thomas Krens (Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation), preface by Heiner Pietzsch, essays by Jasper Sharp, exhibition commentary by Henrike Schulte and interview by Folker Skulima.

Brochure in English and Italian.