Umberto Boccioni, Materia, 1912
(detail)
1900-1961 ITALIAN ART COLLECTIONS IN GUGGENHEIM
February 26 -5 June 2011
inauguration Feb. 25, 2011
Ark Church of San Marco, Vercelli
From 26 February to 5 June 2011 the Ark of Vercelli hosts the show from 1900 to 1961. Italian art in the Guggenheim Collection, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero.
After the trilogy dedicated to the figure of Peggy Guggenheim - which in three years has brought about 120,000 visitors in Vercelli, fully recognized the role of cities - the renewed partnership between the Piedmont Region, City of Vercelli and Peggy Guggenheim Collection Venice will see over 40 works by Italian artists loved and collected by the American patrons.
The exhibition is a tribute to Italian art of the twentieth century, with a selection of works describing the genesis, the development of research maturazionee artistic avant-garde in Italy from 1900 to 1961. The exhibition will see how the Italian art has been incorporated in the course of these sixty years, criticized the taste of American collectors and enriched by important private collections, most notably the Gianni Mattioli Collection, significant long-term loan the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.
Symbolically, in the year of celebrations of 150 years Unification of Italy, the exhibition since 1961, the year of the centenary, with a painting by Giuseppe Capogrossi. Through the works of internationally recognized Italian artists, the exhibition traces back the history of Italian art of the twentieth century.
Among the authors show Alberto Burri, Lucio Fontana, Giorgio Morandi, Filippo De Pisis, Arturo Tosi, Amedeo Modigliani, Arnaldo Pomodoro. Particular attention is paid to the work of Mario Sironi, one of the Italian artists represented in the collection from New York, in this ark with eight jobs. The last part of the exhibition is devoted to Futurism, a movement that immediately caught the attention of collectors public and private American works of Medardo Rosso, Gaetano Previati and Adolfo Wildt, to the great names of Giacomo Balla and Umberto Boccioni.
The exhibition is organized in cooperation with production reaching Arts exhibitions and museums, which also publishes the catalog. Also a full program of initiatives to promote and support informational and educational. Among the novelties of this year, visitors will have the Ark of audioguidache free service will provide information about both the exhibition is the recently restored frescoes in the nave lateralidella former church of San Marco. The exhibition is included in the calendar of Experience Italy, a program of exhibitions and events organized in Turin and Piedmont to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy.
Ark Church of San Marco Piazza San Marco 1
hours from Monday to Friday: 9-19
Saturday and Sunday: 10 -20
(ticket office closes one hour earlier)
Infoline and booking
callcenter 199 75 7516
tel. +39 02 43353522
www.guggenheimvercelli.it
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