Venue:
Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

Curator:
Luca Massimo Barbero.

Artists:
Luciano Anceschi, Guillaume Apollinaire, Karel Appel, Edmondo Bacci, Luigi Bartolini, Massimo Bontempelli, Andre Breton, Massimo Campigli, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Carlo Carrà, Giorgio de Chirico, Jean Cocteau, Roberta Crippa, Pietro Consagra, Sonia Delaunay, Mario Deluigi, Gianni Dova, Jean Dubuffet, Paul Eluard, Lucio Fontana, Tullio Garbari, Franco Gentilini, Virgilio Guidi, Hundertwasser, Alfred Jarry, Jasper Johns, Asger Jorn, James Joyce, Franz Kline, Bice Lazzari, Leoncillo Leopardi, Mino Maccari, Gianna Mancini, Conrad Marca-Relli, Marino Marini, Arturo Martini, Georges Mathieu, Matta, Milena Milani, Joan Miró, Giorgio Morandi, Gino Morandis, Salvatore Quasimoto, Tancredi Parmeggiani, Filippo de Pisis, Paolo De Poli, Serge Poliakoff, Ottone Rosai, Gino Rossi, Mimmo Rotella, Emilio Scanavino, Carlo Scarpa, Scipione, Mario Sironi, Atanasio Soldati, Yves Tanguy, Arturo Tosi, Cy Twombly, Pegeen Vail, Paul Valéry, Emilio Vedova, Vinicio Vianello.

Exhibition description:
This exhibition was dedicated to Carlo Cardazzo (1908-1963), a major figure in the Italian and international art scene of the mid 20th century, who, like Peggy Guggenheim was passioniate about contemporary art. Carlo Cardazzo. A New Vision for Art, was the first exhibition devoted exclusively to this enterprising patron, publisher, collector, and art dealer. Through the originality of his way of navigating the art world and his methods of promoting it, Cardazzo reached a new public, in part through his galleries, and in part through novel cultural strategies. The exhibition recaptured the creative verve of Cardazzo’s career, bringing to light a treasure trove of masterpieces, documents, objects, printed matter and manuscripts.

Catalogue:
Barbero, Luca Massimo. Carlo Cardazzo. Una nuova visione dell’arte. Milano; Electa, 2008.

Catalogue in Italian, with prefaces by Philip Rylands (Director, Collezione Peggy Guggenheim) and Giancarlo Galan (President della Regione del Veneto), and essays by Luca Massimo Barbero, Sileno Salvagnini, Carlo Montanaro, Orietta Lanzarini, Claudia Gian Ferrari, Valerio Rivosecchi, Giovanni Bianchi, Francesca Pola, Paolo Campiglio, Dino Marangon, Giorgina Bertolino, Alessandro Del Puppo, Margit Zuckriegl, Massimo De Sabbata, Enrico Crispolti, Toni Toniato, Milena Milani. Catalogue also contains an exhibition checklist.

Library location: GUGG PGC 2008 .05, UFFICIO 28 0015.