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april 13, 2019 - Peggy Guggenheim
THE NATURE OF ARP at Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice
THE NATURE OF ARP
April 13 – September 2, 2019
Curated by Catherine Craft, Nasher Sculpture Center
The Nature of Arp, curated by Catherine Craft and organized by the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, first venue of the show, provides a long-overdue look at the achievements of Jean (Hans) Arp (1886-1966), one of the most important and multifaceted artists of the modern era. Arp’s experimental approach to creation, radical rethinking of traditional art forms, and collaborative proclivities resonate with the wide-ranging character of art today.
Over a career spanning more than six decades, Arp produced a remarkably influential body of work in a rich variety of materials and formats. A founder of the Dada movement and pioneer of abstraction, he developed a vocabulary of curving, organic forms that moved fluidly between abstraction and representation and became a common point of reference for several generations of artists.
The exhibition brings to Palazzo Venier dei Leoni more than 70 works—sculptures in plaster, wood, bronze and marble, painted reliefs in wood, collages, drawings, tapestries and books—from European and American institutions and private collections.
The seven works by Arp in the #peggyguggenheim Collection provide a rich starting point for this exhibition, as Arp was the first artist to enter Peggy Guggenheim’s collection with his small bronze sculpture Head and Shell (Tête et coquille) dated 1933. “The first thing I bought for collection was an Arp bronze. [Arp] took me to the foundry where it had been cast and I fell so in love with it that I asked to have it in my hands. The instant I felt it I wanted to own it”, wrote #peggyguggenheim in her autobiography, Out of This Century(London: Andre Deutsch, 1979). She then enthusiastically added sculptures, as well as collages, reliefs and works on paper to her holdings. Likewise, Patsy Nasher purchased a bronze sculpture by Arp, Torso with Buds (1961) for her husband Raymond on his birthday, and it turned out to be—as for Peggy Guggenheim—the founding work of the famed Nasher collection of modern sculpture.
The Nature of Arp is accompanied by a richly illustrated catalogue with a central essay by the curator of the exhibition, Nasher Curator Catherine Craft, and additional essays by established and emerging scholars: Lewis Kachur, professor of art history at Kean University, New Jersey; Walburga Krupp, research associate at Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Zurich; and Tessa Paneth-Pollak, assistant professor of art history at Michigan State University.
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Free tours of the exhibition are offered daily at 3:30pm ; museum ticket purchase required.
Photographs are not permitted in the exhibition rooms.
SPONSOR
The Nature of Arp is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and Swiss Arts Council ProHelvetia. Additional support provided by Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger, Charlene and Tom Marsh, and the Ruthie and Jay Pack Family Foundation.
The exhibition programs of the #peggyguggenheim Collection are supported by the #peggyguggenheim Collection Advisory Board. The educational programs in conjunction with the exhibition are funded by the Fondazione Araldi Guinetti, Vaduz. The exhibitions at the #peggyguggenheim Collection are made possible by the Institutional Patrons, EFG and Lavazza, and by the Guggenheim Intrapresæ.
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