VENICE.- From October 15 2011 to January 1 2012, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents Themes&Variations. First conceived in 2002 by Luca Massimo Barbero, this is the third edition of an innovative but now proven exhibition formula that offers visitors fresh perceptions of the museum’s collections, whether known or less known, by means of a dialogue with works by more contemporary artists from other collections, thus opening up new, multiple possible interpretations. Works from the early 20th c. avant-garde connect thematically in a confrontation and comparison with post war and contemporary works, tracing the evolution of forms of visual expression as they change with time. Each gallery narrates its own story, its own theme, a curiosity or a variation, sometimes self-evident and sometimes purposefully obscured by the artist. Beginning with Modernist works from early last century so strongly characteristic of