art
Painting - Sculpture
Peggy Guggenheim e la nuova pittura americana
Arca – Chiesa di San Marco, Piazza San Marco 1
from 21.11.2008 to 01.03.2009
This exhibit presents Peggy Guggenheim’s American years through a voyage among works by artists that this patron of the arts was acquainted and surrounded herself with during her stay in New York, stimulating a new and vivacious debate upon the identity of American art. Central figures of the exposition are Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, along with Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Arshile Gorky,Willem de Kooning, Sam Francis, Hans Hofmann – the absolute stars of Abstract Expressionism – featuring over 50 works. The leitmotif of the exhibit’s artistic course is Jackson Pollock whose legend is born thanks specifically to Peggy Guggenheim. Her support and esteem leads the young artist towards his role as protagonist of the international contemporary art scene. 14 of his works are included, a number that is absolutely extraordinary for a great master who is rarely displayed due to (among other reasons) the extreme fragility of his works, making them rare and not well-known to the Italian public. To be viewed at the Arca, very rare works by Mark Rothko that date back to the 1940’s, of utter interest along with those of Franz Kline that approach gesture painting with his typical black marks on white backgrounds.
www.guggenheimvercelli.it
