Venue:
Arca, ex Chiesa di San Marco, Vercelli.

Curator:
Luca Massimo Barbero.

Artists:
Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Jean Arp, Edmondo Bacci, Giacomo Balla, Rudolf Bauer, William Baziotes, Georges Braque, Alexander Calder, Paul Cézanne, Corneille, Robert Delaunay, Theo van Doesburg, Jean Dubuffet, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Jean Hélion, Asger Jorn, Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, František Kupka, Fernand Léger, Franz Marc, Henri Matisse, Jean Metzinger, László Moholy-Nagy, Piet Mondrian, Tancredi Parmeggiani, Antoine Pevsner, Hilla Rebay, Ad Reinhardt, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Giuseppe Santomaso, Georges Seurat, Pierre Soulages, Emilio Vedova.

Exhibition description:
Peggy e Solomon R. Guggenheim. Le avanguardie dell’astrazione presented the theme of abstraction in the form of a dialogue between uncle and niece. It traced a path through the exchanges and acquisitions of the two collectors, confirming Solomon and Peggy’s places among the major figures of 20th century art history.

Partnerships:
Organized by the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in partnership with the Regione Piemonte and the Comune di Vercelli.

Catalogue:
Barbero, Luca Massimo. Peggy e Solomon R. Guggenheim. Le avanguardie dell’astrazione. Milano: Giunti Arte Mostre Musei s. r. l., 2010.

Catalogue in Italian, with prefaces by Richard Armstrong (Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum) and Philip Rylands (Director, Peggy Guggenheim Collection), Mercedes Bresso (President, Regione Piemonte), Gianni Oliva (Regional Culture Councillor), Andrea Corsaro (Mayor of Vercelli), Pier Giorgio Fossale (Town Councillor of Culture), Dario Casalini (President, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Vercelli) and Renzo Masoero (President, Provincia di Vercelli). Essays by Barbero, Rylands and Tracey Bashkoff, and catalogue entries by Francesca Pola. Catalogue contains artists’ biographies.

Library location: GUGG PGC 2010.01, UFFICIO 26 0010.