London Before Venice: The Origins of Peggy Guggenheim’s Collection
Just the large painting “Dominant Curve” by Kandinsky It’s worth seeing. The work, which reveals the Russian artist’s commitment to exploring the concepts of tension and balance in his art, was among those exhibited at the “Guggenheim Jeune”, the first gallery opened by Peggy Guggenheim in London, at a time when the English-speaking world was just beginning to discover the European avant-garde.
This and much more is featured in the exhibition ““Peggy Guggenheim in London: The Making of a Collector” , on view through October 19 at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. Developed over six years, this is the first exhibition dedicated to Peggy Guggenheim’s time in London and her first gallery, located at 30 Cork Street between 1938 and 1939. The exhibition, curated by Gražina Subelytė and from Simon Grant, reconstructs A crucial yet lesser-known chapter in Guggenheim’s life in the promotion and acceptance of modern and abstract art in Great Britain: “He realized that his “Our mission was to raise awareness of and foster appreciation for contemporary artists,” the curators explain. At a time when London’s institutions remained conservative, the “Guggenheim Jeune” played a fundamental role in shaping the British art scene during the interwar period, increasing the visibility and acceptance of contemporary art, and proving to be an essential space for the promotion of avant-garde art.
