Fucina degli Angeli: Peggy Guggenheim and 20th-Century Artistic Glass
Curated by Cristina Beltrami
The exhibition
More than a hundred works, with drawings, paintings, sculptures and archive material, follow the Fucina degli Angeli from the experiments of the Centro Studio Pittori nell’Arte del Vetro to the research of the 1980s. The first are born of the ceramics of Braque and Picasso; then come the glass works of Arman, Arp, Cocteau, Max Ernst, Jenkins, Kokoschka, Matta, Dorothea Tanning and Tobey; of the abstract artists Remo Bianco, Capogrossi, Veronesi and Fontana; of the Japanese artists active in Venice in the 1960s and 1970s, Tomio Miki, Katsuhiko Narita, Mikuni Omura and Tadanori Yokoo; and lastly of Coignard, Pino Mucchiut and John C. Portman.
Alongside the Archive of the Fucina and the Collection, works are lent by the Mudac in Lausanne, the Kunstmuseum Walter, the Fondazione Marguerite Arp in Locarno, the Historisches Museum Basel, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Museo del Vetro in Murano. The catalogue is published by Marsilio Arte, with texts by Marianna Rossi and Stefano Turina.
Peggy Guggenheim
Peggy Guggenheim buys many works for her collection and supports Egidio Costantini at decisive moments. She puts him in touch with other artists and suggests how to show the work. In 1964 she shows the works of the Fucina in her palazzo, the same that houses this exhibition today.