contessanally: Venice: Peggy Guggenheim Collection – Marino Marini

Monday, February 19, 2018

Venice: Peggy Guggenheim Collection – Marino Marini – Visual Passions Exhibition

Photograph and copyright by Manfredi Bellati

Peggy Guggenheim Collection

Marino Marini – Visual Passions

In the intimate galleries of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Marino Marini – Visual Passions, until May 1, is curated by Barbara Cinelli and Flavio Fergonzi. It is the exhibition’s second venue after Palazzo Fabroni in Pistoia and allows an unprecedented, concentrated and close examination of more than fifty sculptures by Marino Marini. These are exhibited together with twenty additional works ranging from antiquity to the 20th century, which lend comparison to Marini’s work.

Marino Marini – Miracle – 1955 – polychrome wood

http://www.guggenheim-venice.it/inglese/default.html

Chinese Art

Ferghana Horse - early Tang Dynasty (618–907)

polychrome terracotta

The exhibition allows for an intensive dialogue between Marini’s sculptures and those from the Italian plastic tradition which interested the artist—the great models of the 20th century and important examples of the sculptural tradition from past centuries: Egyptian, ancient Greek and Etruscan antiquities, Medieval, Renaissance and 19th-century sculpture which have never before been exhibited at Palazzo Venier dei Leoni.

Co-curator Flavio Fergonzi

Marino Marini – Rider – 1947 -  bronze 

Director Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Karole Vail
Marino Marini - Gentleman on Horseback - 1937 - bronze 

“From the beginning of his career, Marino Marini genuinely loved and assiduously engaged with the field of sculptural portraiture. Frequently reproduced in books of the time, these portraits brought the artist important recognition and characterized his participation in the most important exhibitions of the 1930s.”
Chiara Fabi

Etruscan Art
Cover of a Double Funerary Urn, with the Dead Man and Vanth
early 4th century BCE - memorial-ossuary limestone
Marino Marini – People – 1929 - terracotta

Photograph and copyright by Manfredi Bellati

Greek Art
Metope - fragment, 460–450 BCE - marble 
Marino Marini - Imaginary Portrait (Memory of Past Civilizations)
1937 -  terracotta 

photograph - Fondazione Marino Marini – courtesy Peggy Guggenheim Collection

In December 1939, in Tempo, Marini wrote that he had always tried to render, in the portrait,

“More than the expression or character of the person – including that which, about [the sitter], was most communicative, in the least exterior sense – the [sitter’s] poetry…there is no human face in
which this poetry is not enclosed, nested and solidified in a feature, a bump a slight hollow: the artist must be able to recognize and release it.”

Marino Marini - in front of sculptures of Marina and Anita

Co-curator Barbara Cinelli

Marino Marini - Portrait of Germaine Richier – 1945 - bronze

Marino Marini – Jugglers – 1953-1956 -  polychrome bronze 

Henry Moore - Three Standing Figures – 1953 - bronze

Marino Marini - Pomona – 1940 - bronze 
Ernesto De Fiori - Standing Female Nude - 1927 Bronze 

photograph - Fondazione Marino Marini – courtesy Peggy Guggenheim Collection

The Female Nudes and “Pomona”

“The ‘Pomona,’ after not seeing it for two years, seemed to me more beautiful than ever.”
Emilio Jesi – 1945

Marino Marini - Pomona – 1940 - bronze 

Ernesto De Fiori - Standing Female Nude - 1927 Bronze 

President of the Fondazione Marino Marini Paolo Pedrazzini
Marino Marini – Boxer – 1935 - wood 

http://www.fondazionemarinomarini.it/eng/

Peggy Guggenheim Cafe

The press preview was held in the Museum Cafe, situated in the gardens of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

Coffee Caviar

Lavvazza’s Marco Melis demonstrates how to make Coffee Caviar, developed with Ferran Adria. Using a syringe, small drops of coffee are transformed into little balls, which create a myriad of delicious tiny explosions on the palate.

http://www.lavazza.com/en/