“Themes &Variations – Script and space” at the Guggenheim

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Until 1st January 2012 Peggy Guggenheim Collection Until 1st January 2012 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice is the venue of the third edition of Massimo Barbero’s curated project “Themes&Variations”. It will be held in the halls of the Gallery dedicated to temporary exhibitions. The masterpieces of the museum are thematically and scientifically compared to pieces of art created by more modern artists from other collections. The aim is to guide visitors and help them fully understand the work of the new art movements at the beginning of the XX century, by putting them in their historical context and comparing them to other paintings, sculptures and more recent creations. This exhibition is a unique opportunity to see how themes and symbols evolved into new kinds of artistic expression. The subject of this edition’s exhibition is “Script and space”. The “script” can be seen in the transition from the cubist and futurist collages of Pablo Picasso and Carlo Carrà to the crypto-script of Dadamaino and Riccardo De marchi, including the all-round work of Rudolf Stingel, which is connected to the expressionist script of Jackson Pollock. “Space” opens with Rufino Tamayo’s cosmos and reaches Mario Nigro, François Morellet and Arthur Duff. The exhibition ends with homage to Gastone Novelli (1925-68), one of the main Italian artists in the 1950s and 1960s. The end of the exhibition is the "Gastone Novelli and Venice" exhibition, dedicated to one of the main Italian artists in the 1950s and 1960s and organised with the help of the Rome Gastone Novelli Archive. The relationship of the artist is reconstructed through his poetic script, his great, balanced canvases with signs, marks, colours and words. There are some notebooks from the 1960s with pictures of Venice, as well as pictures painted between 1964 and 1968. some are unpublished and dedicated to the city or painted in his Venetian art studio.TD