Venue:
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

Curators:
Germano Celant, Lisa Dennison and Michael Govan.

Artists:
Constantin Brancusi, Georges Braque, Alexander Calder, Joseph Cornell, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Walter de Maria, Dan Flavin, Alberto Giacometti, Albert Gleizes, Juan Gris, Donald Judd, Jannis Kounellis, Vasily Kandinsky, Fernand Léger, Joan Miró, René Magritte, Mario Merz, Jean Metzinger, Piet Mondrian, Robert Morris, Giulio Paolini, Giuseppe Penone, Antoine Pevsner, Pablo Picasso, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jackson Pollock, Robert Ryman, Richard Serra, Georges Vantongerloo, Gilberto Zorio,

Exhibition description:
This exhibition created a series of aesthetic dialogues or confrontations by pairing contemporary art from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum with the modern masterpieces that belong to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. For instance, Untitled (1963), a sculpture by Dan Flavin which incorporates neon light, was displayed next to Composition No. 1, by Piet Mondrian. Like Mondrian, Flavin eschewed the limits imposed by frames, emphasizing instead elementary forms, creating non-hierarchical relationships in his compositions. But while Flavin turned to artificial, industrial light, Mondrian embraced painting as the privileged medium by which to distill the mundane world to its pure essence and achieve universality and spirituality.

Catalogue:
No catalogue. Brouchure in English and Italian.