Venue:
Foro Boario, Modena.

Curator:
Luca Massimo Barbero.

Artists:
Carl Andre, Alexander Archipenko, Kenneth Armitage, Jean Arp, Ernst Barlach, Joseph Beuys, Constantin Brancusi, Reg Butler, Alexander Calder, César, Lynn Chadwick, Pietro Consagra, Joseph Cornell, Edgar Degas, Marcel Duchamp, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Max Ernst, Dan Flavin, Naum Gabo, Alberto Giacometti, Julio González, David Hare, Jenny Holzer, Jannis Kounellis, Ibram Lassaw, Jacques Lipchitz, Richard Long, Aristide Maillol, Mario Merz, Luciano Minguzzi, Mirko, Amedeo Modigliani, László Moholy-Nagy, Henry Moore, Maurizio Nannucci, Costantino Nivola, Isamu Noguchi, Mimmo Paladino, Eduardo Paolozzi, Giuseppe Penone, Antoine Pevsner, Pablo Picasso, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Germaine Richier, Auguste Rodin, Giuseppe Spagnulo, Georges Vantongerloo and Adolfo Wildt.

Exhibition description:
Da Modigliani al contemporaneo. Scultura dalle Collezioni Guggenheim highlighted emblematic themes of twentieth century sculpture through a selection of artworks from the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York. It did not aim to present a complete narrative of modern sculpture, but rather focused on the ways in which artists have contributed to, been influenced by, or reinterpreted key artistic topics over time. The display, spanning from 1882 to present, did not follow a chronological order. Instead it was articulated in four segments: “La Figura Umana: l’evoluzione dalla tradizione” (Modigliani, Degas, Rodin, Maillol, Moore, Arp, Ernst, Giacometti, Armitage, Richier, Picasso); “La Forma Animale: un bestiario moderno” (Mirko, Eduardo Paolozzi, Luciano Minguzzi, Louise Bourgeois, Joseph Beuys, Costantin Brancusi); “Le Avanguardie: la ricerca astratta” (Alexander Calder, Gabo, Moholy-Nagy, Lipshitz, Duchamp-Villon, Pomodoro, Nivola, Pevsner, Vantongerloo); “Verso L’Antiscultura: il contemporaneo” (Cornell, Duchamp, Andre, Flavin, Kounellis, Penone, Pistoletto, Gonzales Torres).

Partnerships:
Exhibition organized by the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in partnership with the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena.

Catalogue:
Barbero, Luca Massimo. Da Modigliani al contemporaneo. Scultura dalle Collezioni Guggenheim. Modena: Peggy Guggenheim Collection and Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, 2003.

Catalogue in Italian, with prefaces by Gianfranco Baldini (Predidente Fondazione Cassi di Risparmio di Modena) and Thomas Krens (Direttore Fondazione Solomon R. Guggenheim), and essays by Luca Massimo Barbero and Sileno Salvagnini. Catalogue also includes an exhibition checklist with catalogue entries and artists’ biographies.

Library location: GUGG PGC 2003 .12, GUGG PGC 2003 .01.