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

Curator:
Luca Massimo Barbero.

Artists:
Jean Arp, Victor Brauner, Eleonora Carrington, Marc Chagall, Jean Cocteau, Salvador Dalí, Giorgio de Chirico, Paul Delvaux. Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Leonor Fini, Alberto Giacometti, Humphrey Jennings, Paul Klee, Fernand Léger, René Magritte, Man Ray, André Masson, Roberto Sebastián Matta, Joan Miró, Henry Moore, Richard Oelze, Pablo Picasso, Kurt Seligmann, Yves Tanguy and John Tunnard.

Exhibition description:
This show inaugurated a new exhibition space in Vercelli, Piemonte: Arca, former Church of San Marco. Masterpieces from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, were brought together to create an account of Surrealism, the most influential avant-garde movements between the two world wars. The display highlighted Peggy Guggenheim’s role as a collector of Surrealism. Peggy Guggenheim e l'immaginario surreale therefore not only offered an exploration of Surrealism, but also a reconsideration of modern art through the lens of patronage.

Partnerships:
Exhibition organized by the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in partnership with the Regione Piemonte and the Citta di Vercelli.

Catalogue:
Barbero, Luca Massimo. Peggy Guggenheim e l'immaginario surreale. Milano: Giunti Arte Mostre Musei s. r. l., 2007.

Library location: GUGG PGC 2007 .10.