Venue:
Mantua, Palazzo Ducale + Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice.

Curator:
Fred Licht.

Artists:
Afro Basaldella, Edmondo Bacci, Enrico Baj, Gianfranco Baruchello, Alberto Burri, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Pietro Consagra, Enzo Cucchi, Piero Dorazio, Lucio Fontana, Alberto Magnelli, Ezio Martinelli, Umberto Mastroianni, Luciano Minguzzi, Guido Molinari, Vettor Pisani, Armano Pizzinato, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Attilio Salemme, Giuseppe Santomaso, Tancredi, Emilio Vedova.

Exhibition description:
Arte italiana del dopoguerra dai musei Guggenheim. Postwar Italian Art from the Guggenheim Museum was organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for the Palazzo Ducale, Mantua. The display brought together well known artists such as Chia, Clemente and Cucchi, with lesser known figures who had only recently begun to be appreciated. The best example of this is the artist Tancredi, who was championed by Peggy Guggenheim. This exhibition illustrated the emergence of Italy as force in the development of an international avant-garde, and conveyed the openness and interest that Americans felt for Italian art during the postwar years.

Catalogue:
Licht, Fred. Arte italiana del dopoguerra dai musei Guggenheim. Postwar Italian Art from the Guggenheim Museum. Venice: Cataloghi Marsilio and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1988.

Bilingual catalogue, in English and Italian. Includes introductions by Ernesto Scattolini (Presidente dell’Azienda di Promozione Turistica, Mantova) and Philip Rylands (Deputy Director, Peggy Guggenheim Collection), an essay by Fred Licht and the exhibition checklist.

Library location: GUGG PGC 1988 .02, UFFICIO 25 0012