Venues:
Galleria Gottardo, Lugano.
Milano: Fondazione Mazzotta, November 14, 2008–February 22, 2009.

Curators:
Franco Rogantini and Philip Rylands.

Exhibition description:
The exhibition featured a little known aspect of Peggy Guggenheim’s career as a collector: more than thirty ethnographic objects that she acquired in the 1960s, including pieces from Africa, South America and Oceania. Thirty-three of these were presented to the public for the first time.

Partnerships:
Exhibition organized in partnership by the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and the Galleria Gottardo, Lugano.

Catalogue:
Campione, Francesco Paolo. Ethnopassion: la collezione d'arte etnica di Peggy Guggenheim / Peggy Guggenheim’s Ethnic Art Collection. Milano: Edizioni Gabriele Mazzotta, 2008.

Bilingual catalogue, in English and Italian. Catalogues include preface by Franco Rogantini (Director, Galleria Gottardo) and Philip Rylands (Director, Peggy Guggenheim Collection), and essays by Francesco Paolo Campione, Alessia Borellini and Giulio Zaccarelli. Catalogues also contain exhibition checklist with catalogue entries and a bibliography.

Library location: GUGG PGC 2008 .04.