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‘Carlo Cardazzo: A New Vision for Art’ at Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice

Umberto Boccioni (Italian, 1882-1916). Study for The City Rises, 1910. Oil on cardboard. 33 x 47 cm (13 x 18 1/2 in.). Gianni Mattioli Collection. Long-term loan to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice.

VENICE – In this 60th anniversary year of Peggy Guggenheim’s collection in Venice, her museum will host an exhibition dedicated to a major figure in Italian and international art of the mid 20th century: Carlo Cardazzo (1908-1963), a Venetian whose centenary is this year and who shared with Peggy Guggenheim his passion for contemporary art. Carlo Cardazzo. A New Vision for Art, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, 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
PEGGY GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION TURNS 30 YEARS January
1–December 31, 2010.