Venue:
Foro Boario, Modena.

Curator:
Luca Massimo Barbero.

Artists:
Carla Accardi, Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Edmondo Bacci, Afro, Alberto Burri, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Corneille, Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Pinot Gallizio, Hans Hartung. Asger Jorn, Bice Lazzari, Piero Manzoni, Georges Mathieu, Gastone Novelli, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Salvatore Scarpitta, Toti Scialoja, Pierre Soulages, Tancredi, Antoni Tàpies, Cy Twombly, Emilio Vedova.

Exhibition description:
Informel: Jean Dubuffet and European Art 1945-1970 examined the European post-war art scene, considering the far-reaching implications of the concept Informel. Jean Dubuffet’s experimentations with different kinds of materials served as the exhibition’s focal point, around which revolve the works of leading exponents of the Informel movement. The show displayed works by Tàpies, Soulages, Hartung and the CoBrA artists among others, alongside Italians such as Burri, Fontana, Novelli, Manzoni, Vedova, Scialoja and Tancredi. While paintings by these artists were purchased in large numbers in the United States, the art of Dubuffet has been avidly collected by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, foregrounding him as a leading representative of the postwar years.

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

Catalogue:
Barbero, Luca Massimo. Informale: Jean Dubuffet e l'arte europea 1945-1970. Milano: Skira, 2005.

Catalogue in Italian, with prefaces by Andrea Landi (Presidente, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena) and Thomas Krens (Direttore, Fondazione Solomon R. Guggenheim). Essays by Mirella Bandini, Luca Massimo Barbero, Alberto Bassi, Giorgina Bertolino, Paolo Campiglio, Enrico Crispolti, Francesco Comisso, Giorgio Mastinu, Thomas M. Messer, Manuela Quarti, Maria Teresa Roberto, Margit Rowell, Sileno Salvagnini, Luca Scarlini and Lorenza Trucchi. Catalogue also contains a text by Jean Dubuffet and the artists’ biographies.

Library location: GUGG PGC 2005 .11.