Venue:
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

Curator:
Fred Licht.

Artist:
Gastone Novelli.

Exhibition description:
This exhibition celebrated the entry of four paintings by Gastone Novelli into the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, which had been gifted by the artist’s heirs. The paintings Linea, Dialettica, Un obelisco per la memoria and Tonnerre Printanier are dated only a few months before Novelli’s death, in 1968. The four paintings together form a compositional unit. The show placed them in the context of other works by Novelli. It focused on the manner in which Novelli experimented with different mediums and techniques. Emphasis was also placed on the language of signs deployed by the artist, a personal symbolism related to alchemical transition, the undiscovered, the indecipherable, and different forms of journeys or voyages.

Catalogue:
Fuso, Annarita. Omaggio a Gastone Novelli. Homage to Gastone Novelli. Venice: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1992.

Bilingual catalogue, in English and Italian. Includes introductions by Fred Licht and Ivan Novelli, an essay by Annarita Fuso and artist biography.

Library location: GUGG PGC 1992 .01, UFFICIO 25 0008