Venue:
Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

Curator:
Fred Licht.

Artist:
Giuseppe Santomaso.

Exhibition description:
This exhibition was conceived as a tribute to Giuseppe Santomaso, who was a friend to Peggy Guggenheim upon her arrival in Venice in 1948, along with Emilio Vedova. The show presented a group of Santomaso’s most important works: the series Letters to Palladio, 1977. According to curator Fred Licht, these seven paintings are the “summa” of Santomaso’s achievements, and should be deemed not just as “letters” from an artist to an architect, but as a “correspondence” between them, that is, a dialogue encompassing profound aesthetic appreciations.

Catalogue:
Licht, Fred. Giuseppe Santomaso. Lettere a Palladio / Giuseppe Santomaso. Letters to Palladio. Venezia: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1992.

Bilingual catalogue, in English and Italian. Catalogue includes an introduction by Thomas Krens, (Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum), essays by Carlo Bertelli and Fred Licht, and an artist biography.

Library location: GUGG PGC 1992 .02