Venice – A Journey into Jackson Pollock’s Alchemy
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Temporary exhibition.
Curated by Luciano Pensabene Buemi and Roberto Bellucci
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
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Alchemy by Jackson Pollock. Discovering the Artist at Work, running until April 6, 2015, at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, is an extraordinary scientific exhibition that allows visitors to fully appreciate a masterpiece of 20th-century art. Such, rare and valuable, kind of cultural events are capable of offering the general public a truly complete and in-depth knowledge of a work of art.
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Alchemy by Jackson Pollock. Discovering the Artist at Work
installation views. Ph. Matteo De Fina
The occasion has arisen from the return of the famous painting Alchemy, realized by Jackson Pollock in 1947, back to the Peggy Guggenheim collection to which it belongs. The painting was loaned for a full year to the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence for research and conservative purposes.
Left: Jackson Pollock in his studio, ca. 1947/ Herbert Matter, photographer. Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Right: Jackson Pollock at work, 1950 / Rudy Burckhardt, photographer. Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
The restoration and the study campaigns performed on the artwork revealed a precise scheme in the realization of the painting, like as Pollock had since the beginning a complete idea of the “architecture” of the work and had arranged it like a conductor does with an orchestra.
Jackson Pollock, Alchemy, 1947. Oil, aluminum (and enamel?) paint, and string on canvas, 114.6 x 221.3 cm. Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. Alchemy at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence. Photo Opificio delle Pietre Dure.
The exhibition carries the visitor across a fascinating journey inside the artwork, which is for this event exceptionally exposed without a protective glass to fully reveal the brightness of its colors and the “three-dimensionality” of the painting surface. The painting technique used by Pollock and the restoration process are fully presented, also through multimedia techniques, 3D reconstructions, touch-screen systems, interactive exhibits, and historical material provided by the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Long Island.
Alchemy by Jackson Pollock. Discovering the Artist at Work
installation view. Ph. Matteo De Fina
Alchemy by Jackson Pollock. Discovering the Artist at Work is the first event of an articulated program that includes two other major exhibitions presenting a joint tribute to Jackson Pollock and his brother Charles: Jackson Pollock’s ‘Mural’: Energy Made Visible and Charles Pollock: A Retrospective, will both run at the Peggy Guggenheim from April 23 to September 14, 2015.
Alchemy by Jackson Pollock. Discovering the Artist at Work
Curated by Luciano Pensabene Buemi and Roberto Bellucci
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
14 February – 6 April 2015.
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The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is world-renowned museum in Venice, housed in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni on the Grand Canal, dedicated to 20th century art
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