In 2022, an exhibition on Surrealism and Magic at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

From April 9 to September 26, 2022, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection at Palazzo Venier dei Leoni in Venice will present to the public the exhibition Surrealism and Magic. Enchanted Modernity, curated by Grazina SubelytÄ—, Associate Curator of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

Surrealism is the artistic movement that throughout the twentieth century was inspired by tropes of magic, mythology and the occult. In exploring the irrational and unconscious, many exponents of the movement looked to magic as a form of poetic and philosophical discourse connected to ancient knowledge and processes of personal emancipation. Surrealists in general draw on esoteric symbolism and nurture the idea of the artist as alchemist, magician or visionary. Over the past twenty years, the fundamental role played by magic in the Surrealist sphere has been widely recognized and studied. The Venetian exhibition aims to highlight the infinite ways in which magic and the occult have characterized the development of Surrealism internationally.

Thus, works by Victor Brauner, Leonora Carrington, Salvador Dalí, Paul Delvaux, Maya Deren, Max Ernst, Leonor Fini, René Magritte, Roberto Matta, Wolfgang Paalen, Kay Sage, Kurt Seligmann, Yves Tanguy, Dorothea Tanning, and Remedios Varo will be on display.

The exhibition is organized by the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, in collaboration with the Barberini Museum in Potsdam. After Venice, the exhibition will in fact go to the Potsdam museum from October 22, 2022 to January 29, 2023.

The exhibition is made possible thanks to Manitou Fund.

For info: https://www.guggenheim-venice.it/it/

Image: Victor Brauner, The Surrealist (1947; oil on canvas, 60 x 45 cm; Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection)

In 2022, an exhibition on Surrealism and Magic at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

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