BOOK:From Kandinsky to Pollock, Rizzoli Publications
The catalog “From Kandinsky to Pollock: The Art of the Guggenheim Collections”, by Rizzoli Publications, describes the birth of the postwar Neo-Avant-Garde movements in a dense and constant dialogue between European and American artists. This major exhibition (19/3-24/7/16) at Palazzo Strozzi, Curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, brought to Florence 100 works, many of them masterpieces, of European and American art from the ‘20s to the ‘60s, in a narrative that turns on the relationship and the ties across two sides of the Atlantic through two leading American collectors, Peggy and Solomon Guggenheim. The exhibition,a joint project of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, offered a unique opportunity to compare and contrast the work of European masters of Modernism such as Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst and Paul Klee, as well as European masters of Art Informel such as Alberto Burri, Emilio Vedova, Jean Dubuffet, and Lucio Fontana, with paintings and sculptures by personalities of the American scene in the ‘50s and ‘60s such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Alexander Calder, Roy Lichtenstein and Cy Twombly.-Efi Michalarou
The catalog “From Kandinsky to Pollock: The Art of the Guggenheim Collections”, by Rizzoli Publications, describes the birth of the postwar Neo-Avant-Garde movements in a dense and constant dialogue between European and American artists. This major exhibition (19/3-24/7/16) at Palazzo Strozzi, Curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, brought to Florence 100 works, many of them masterpieces, of European and American art from the ‘20s to the ‘60s, in a narrative that turns on the relationship and the ties across two sides of the Atlantic through two leading American collectors, Peggy and Solomon Guggenheim. The exhibition,a joint project of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, offered a unique opportunity to compare and contrast the work of European masters of Modernism such as Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst and Paul Klee, as well as European masters of Art Informel such as Alberto Burri, Emilio Vedova, Jean Dubuffet, and Lucio Fontana, with paintings and sculptures by personalities of the American scene in the ‘50s and ‘60s such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Alexander Calder, Roy Lichtenstein and Cy Twombly.-Efi Michalarou
