Venue:
Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

Curator:
Luca Massimo Barbero.

Exhibition description:
This exhibition recreated the atmosphere of the postwar international art scene in Venice through photographs belonging to the ArchivioArte Fondazione Modena. These remarkable photographs, previously unpublished, will take visitors on an extraordinary journey through the artistic milieu of the Venice Biennale from 1948 to 1986, with artists such as Picasso, Matisse, Dalí, Vedova, Fontana and Rauschenberg. Featured during their time in magazines such as Time and Life, the photographs constitute a unique photo-reportage with enormous relevance to the history of postwar culture. The exhibition comprised over one hundred and fifty photographs selected from twelve thousand negatives acquired by the ArchivioArte Fondazione from the Venetian photographic agency Cameraphoto. The ArchivioArte Fondazione is a new project undertaken by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, in order to gather unpublished correspondence, photographs, and personal archives of artists with the purpose of making them available to the public, thus becoming a center for academic study and scholarly consultation. Venice 1948-1986: The Art Scene was accompanied by a 300-page catalogue documenting 900 images, expanding upon the content of the exhibition.

Partnerships:
Exhibition organized in collaboration with the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, Modena.

Catalogue:
Barbero, Luca Massimo. Venice 1948-1986: The Art Scene. Photographs from the ArchivioArte Fondazione Modena. Milano: Skira and Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, 2006.

Catalogue in Italian and English, with prefaces by Andrea Landi (President, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, Modena) and Thomas Krens (Director, Solomon R, Guggenheim Foundation). Essays by Luca Massimo Barbero, Enrico Crispolti, Marco Minuz, Paolo Pitagora, Manuela Quarti, Sileno Salvagnini, and Toni Toniato.

Library location: GUGG PGC 2006 .02 (English), GUGG PGC 2006 .01 (Italian).