Imagine: the Italian avant-garde of the 1960s at Peggy Guggenheim Collection.
From 23 April to 19 September 2016 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection will host
Imagine. New Imagery in Italian Art 1960-1969,
curated by Luca Massimo Barbero: this temporary exhibition shows a fresh perspective and a refined approach on European
post war art in the Italian avant-garde in the 1960s, focusing on the
origin of a new sense of image.
In Italy during the 1960s, at the height of the economic boom, artistic experimentation flourished at an unprecedented pace and intensity. The aim was to create
a new vocabulary of signs and images capable of interpreting the vitality of contemporary culture and society.
This exhibition draws on the richness of Italian art production in those years: the leading theme is how the figured image served to construct a new language of representation in a little known phase of Italian art history.
The exhibition, in a tightly curated sequence of galleries, lays out the multiple lines of research of several of Italian artists who reconstituted a new world of images and narrative. On display there are works by artists such as
Franco Angeli, Mario Ceroli, Domenico Gnoli, Giosetta Fioroni, Tano Festa, Fabio Mauri, Francesco lo Savio, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Mario Schifano, Giulio Paolini, Jannis Kounellis, Pino Pascali - some of them members of the Scuola di Piazza del Popolo, an important avant-garde movement based in Rome. An intense sequence of emblematic works captures the vitality of that brief period of time, a mere nine years, and uncovers, by diversity and assonance, in an unceasing process of exchange and dialogue, that melting-pot of visual art, in a process which gave rise to the schools and movements of future avant-gardes.
Opening: 10 AM - 18 PM, everyday except Tuesday
Ticket: €15
Students under 26 yrs.: €9 (with current student ID)
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