Peggy Guggenheim Collection– Osvaldo Licini

22 September 2018 h 10:00 – 14 January 2019 h 18:00
10 a.m. to 6 p.m. – closed on Tuesday and Dec. 25.
 
Famous house-museum of the American patron Peggy Guggenheim. Masterpieces by artists of the major current and historical avant-gardes. Gianni Mattioli Collection, the Nasher sculptures garden.
Exclusively for those who book directly with a not refundable rate, discounted skip the line tickets can be purchased for the Peggy Guggenheim Collection (13 Euros instead of 15), with cash payment and to collect at the hotel upon arrival.
 
TEMPORARY EXHIBITION: Osvaldo Licini. Let Sheer Folly Sweep Me Away
The exhibition will commemorate the 60th anniversary of Osvaldo Licini’s death (1894–1958). In 1958 Licini exhibited 53 works, dating from 1925 to 1958, at the 29th Venice Biennale, in a gallery designed by Carlo Scarpa. Supported by Peggy Guggenheim’s friend and art critic, Giuseppe Marchiori, he was awarded the Grand Prix for Painting. Licini was a major figure in the development of Italian art in the first half of the 20th century. Following his early figurative works, Licini rejected realism and painted fully abstract works. The exhibition will comprise around 80 paintings that will exemplify Licini’s art, made of colors and signs that he viewed as expressions of energy, willpower, ideas, and magic.