“The  Peggy  Guggenheim  Collection  presents the exhibition Marino Marini. Visual Passions, curated by Barbara Cinelli and Flavio Fergonzi with the collaboration of Chiara Fabi. This is the first retrospective dedicated to Marino Marini. The show intends to contextualize Marini’s work in a broader art historical context. More than 70 works are exhibited in the temporary exhibition galleries as well as in the museum’s Project Rooms and the adjoining veranda. Marino Marini. Visual Passions has been overseen by a scientific committee comprised of the curators and Philip Rylands, Salvatore Settis, Carlo Sisi and Maria Teresa Tosi.

The intimate galleries of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, the exhibition’s second venue after Palazzo Fabroni in Pistoia, allow 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. 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. Such dialogue offers a new and critically innovative point of view on the themes addressed by Marini, moving beyond the limits of chronology, styles and periods. Following Marini’s artistic production from the 1920s to the 1950s, each room displays aspects of this dialogue.” — Peggy Guggenheim Collection

Marino Marini. Pomona, 1945.
 Bronze, 163,5 x 64,5 x 53,5 cm.
 Long term loan to the Collezione Peggy Guggenheim, Venezia.
 Courtesy of Fondazione Marino Marini, Pistoia
© Marino Marini, by SIAE 2018.

Marino Marini. L’angelo della città (The Angel of the City), 1948. Bronze, 175 x 176 x 106 cm. Collezione Peggy Guggenheim, Venezia © Marino Marini, by SIAE 2018.

Peggy Guggenheim on the terrace of Palazzo Venier dei Leoni next to Marino Marini, L’angelo della città (The Angel of the City), (1948, PGC); Venezia, in the 1960s © Fondazione Solomon R. Guggenheim, photo Archivio CameraphotoEpoche, donated by Cassa di Risparmio di Venezia, 2005.

Images courtesy Peggy Guggenheim Collection.