Current exhibition of Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice celebrates Postwar era through new perspectives
Postwar era: a recent history. Homages to Jack Tworkov and Claire Falkenstein. This is the curious title of the
new exhibition hosted by Peggy Guggenheim Collection, one of the most well-known and prestigious museums of
Venice.
Opened
until april 4, 2016 and curated by
Luca Massimo Barbero, the exhibition offers an original perspective about postwar American and European art until 1979, the year of Peggy Guggenheim death.
Peggy has been a woman of remarkable artistic sensibility: in the brilliant narrative of
Postwar era we can admire
more than seventy paintings and sculptures, some of them never exhibited, both from her personal collection and from donations to the Foundation after her death. On display artists as Vedova, Ciussi, De Kooning, Afro, Santomaso and the sculptor Basaldella, all influenced by American Abstract Expressionism.
Postwar era also allows us to step into the work of two artists in the Foundation’s collection:
Jack Tworkow (1900-1982), a Polish-born American Abstract Expressionism painter, and
Claire Falkenstein (1908-1997), who designed the water-side gates of Guggenheim Collection, Peggy's former home, located on the Grand Canal.
Ticket: full price € 15, discounts for students and senior visitors, free for children under 10 yrs
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