Venue:
Villa Manin, Passariano.

Curator:
Curated by Susan Davidson based on a concept by Tracey Bashkoff.

Artists:
Josef Albers, Jean Arp, Rudolf Bauer, Heinrich Campendonk, Max Ernst, Lyonel Feininger, Naum Gabo, Jean Hélion, Vasily Kandinsky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, František Kupka, Bice Lazzari, Fernand Léger, El Lissitzky, Kasimir Malevich, Franz Marc, Joan Miró, László Moholy-Nagy, Piet Mondrian, Emil Nolde, Antoine Pevsner, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Kurt Schwitters, Theo Van Doesburg, Georges Vantongerloo, Hilla Von Rebay.

Exhibition description:
Kandinsky and the Quest for Abstraction brought together over a hundred works by Kandinsky and his contemporaries, drawn from the holdings of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. It set out to document the profound cultural revolution that was precipitated by abstract art, through works by Klee, Marc, Miró, Mondrian, Pollock and Picasso among other artists. The main part of the show was devoted to Vasily Kandinsky. Every phase his career was documented in chronological order: his beginnings in Munich, his return to Russia during the First World War and the Russian Revolution, his years at the Bauhaus in Weimer and Dessau, and his retirement in Paris during the 1930s until his death in 1944.

Partnerships:
Exhibition organized in partnership by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia.

Catalogue:
Davidson, Susan (ed.). Kandinsky e l’avventura astratta / Kandinsky and the Quest for Abstraction. New York: the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and Regione Autonoma Friuli-Venezia Giulia, 2003.

Bilingual catalogue, in English and Italian. Catalogue includes prefaces by Michelangelo Boem (Presidente, Pro Loco Villa Manin), Alessandra Guerra (Vicepresidente, Assessore all’Istruzione e Cultura) and Thomas Krens (Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation), introduction by Thomas Messer and an essay by Michael Govan. The catalogue also contains a detailed checklist with catalogue entries and a chronology.

Library location: GUGG PGC 2003 .06, UFFICIO 31 0002.