Australian Museum Announces Exhibition of Works from Guggenheim

Written by Philip Rylands Saturday, 03 September 2011 20:50

PERTH, AU - This autumn the public will have the unique opportunity of seeing world-class works of art normally on display in Venice, Italy, when the Art Gallery of Western Australia hosts Peggy Guggenheim: A Collection in Venice (October 9, 2010 - January 31, 2011), the first exhibition of a new series entitled Great Collections of the World. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, with an essay by Philip Rylands, Director of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice.

Stefano Carboni, Director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia and a native of Venice, said, “The Peggy Guggenheim Collection has never previously been presented in Australia and the Gallery has been collaborating closely with the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice to bring this exhibition to Western Australia. Perth will be the only venue for this unique exhibition which will captivate Australian audiences with both the outstanding quality of the art and the intriguing personal story of Peggy Guggenheim.”

Dr Carboni said that it has been his vision for the Art Gallery of Western Australia to present a series of high-calibre, highly focused exhibitions from internationally celebrated institutions, and it gave him great pleasure to have been able to secure the first exhibition from such a prestigious museum in his birthplace, Venice.

The works in the exhibition display Peggy Guggenheim’s love of art, and in particular her strong affinity for two key artistic movements of 20th Century modern art: Surrealism and abstraction. Also on display will be personal photos and items which belonged to Peggy, such as a pair of her famous sunglasses. The exhibition at the Gallery will present the vitality created by the combination of European and American artists that transformed Modernist art throughout the world, and will feature works by Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Piet Mondrian, Constantin Brancusi, Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock.

This exhibition has been organised by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York and the Art Gallery of Western Australia.

The Art Gallery of Western Australia, founded in 1895, occupies a precinct of three heritage buildings on the south-eastern corner of the Perth Cultural Centre. The Gallery houses the State Art Collection, which includes one of the world’s finest collections of Indigenous art, the pre-eminent collection of Western Australian art and design, as well as Australian and International art and design. Visit : http://www.artgallery.wa.gov.au/index.asp

The Peggy Guggenheim Collectionis among the most important museums in Italy for European and American art of the first half of the 20th century. It is located in Peggy Guggenheim's former home, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, on the Grand Canal in Venice. The museum was inaugurated in 1980 and presents Peggy Guggenheim's personal collection of 20th century art, masterpieces from the Gianni Mattioli Collection, the Nasher Sculpture Garden, as well as temporary exhibitions. 

The  Peggy Guggenheim Collectionis owned and operated by theSolomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, which also operates the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin.

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