Portrait of Cardazzo by Roberto Crippa 1952 - oil on canvas
Venice: Peggy Guggenheim Collection - Carlo Cardazzo, A New Vision for Art exhibition. In this 60th anniversary year of Peggy Guggenheim’s collection in Venice, her museum is hosting an exhibition dedicated to a major figure in the Italian and the international art world of the mid 20th century: Carlo Cardazzo, A New Vision for Art, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, until February 9th, 2009. Cardazzo, (1908-1963), was a Venetian who shared with Peggy Guggenheim his passion for contemporary art, this is the first exhibition to be devoted exclusively to this enterprising, even volcanic figure: patron, publisher, collector, and dealer. Cardazzo, through the multiplicity of his activities, the originality of his way of navigating the art world, and his methods of promoting it, reached a new public, in part through his galleries, and in part through novel cultural strategies. The exhibition recaptures the creative verve of Cardazzo’s career bringing to light a treasure trove of masterpieces, documents, objects, printed matter and manuscripts, much of it unpublished.
