“From Kandinsky to Pollock: The Art of the Guggenheim Collections” Exhibit (Florence, Italy)

 

"From Kandinsky to Pollock: The Art of the Guggenheim Collections" Exhibit

The second temporary exhibit (the first was the “Migrazione” Exhibit) was “From Kandinsky to Pollock: The Art of the Guggenheim Collections” Exhibit which brought to Florence over one hundred masterpieces of European and American art from the 1920s to the 1960s, in a narrative that reconstructs the relationship and the ties between the two sides of the Atlantic through the lives of two leading American collectors, Peggy and Solomon Guggenheim.

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Saraband (Morris Louis, 1959)

Opened last March 19, 2016 and running until July 24, 2016, this major and exceptional exhibition, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, is the result of a cooperative venture involving the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York. 

It offered visitors a unique opportunity to compare and contrast the crucial work of European masters of modern art such as Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Man Ray and PabloPicasso and European masters of the so-called Art Informel, or “Unformed Art,” such as Alberto Burri, Emilio Vedova, Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, with large paintings and sculptures by some of the most important personalities on the American art scene in the 1950s and 1960s such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Alexander Calder, Roy Lichtenstein and CyTwombly.

 

Dominant Curve (Vasily Kandinsky, 1936,oil on canvas)

On display at the PalazzoStrozzi are large paintings, sculptures, engravings and photographs on loan from the Guggenheim collections in New York City and Venice and from other leading international museums.  They paint a vast fresco of the extraordinarily heady season of 20th century art in which Peggy and Solomon Guggenheim played such a key role. In February 1949, PeggyGuggenheim, who had only recently arrived in Europe, decided to show the collection at the Palazzo Strozzi’s Strozzina undercroft.  Later, it was to find a permanent home in Venice.

 

“From Kandinsky to Pollock: The Art of the Guggenheim Collections” Exhibit: Palazzo Strozzi, Piazza degli Strozzi, 50123 Florence, Italy. Tel: +39 055 264 5155. Open daily, 10 AM – 8 PM (Thursdays, 11 PM). E-mail: info@palazzostrozzi.org. Website: www.palazzostrozzi.org. Admission: € 12.00 (full), €9.50 (Concessions) and €4.00 (groups). Advance sale charge per ticket (excluding schools) is €1.00.