Palazzo delle Esposizioni

Spot! 20 minutes in a work of art - The Guggenheim. The American Avant-Garde 1945-1980

A new edition of spot!, a rendez-vous at cocktail hour offering a guide to the appreciation and interpretation of a work of art, is returning to the Palazzo delle Esposizioni to mark "The Guggenheim. The American Avant-Garde 1945-1980" exhibition at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, with a series of seven encounters designed to explore trends and players in American art after the Second World War: from Abstract Expressionism, through Pop Art, to Conceptual Art and Photorealism. The event, masterminded by Art Workshop Director Paola Vassalli, is scheduled to commence on Friday 10 February and will be conducted Daniela Lancioni, senior curator with the Palazzo delle Esposizioni.

Dal: 10/02/2012
Al: 27/04/2012

	16/03/2012 19:00 Spot! Guggenheim Collection - Andy Warhol, Orange Disaster #5, 1963 In Warhol's work the nature of the silk-screen printing technique, widely used in the 'sixties to promote consumer goods, is enhanced by repetition of the image. An excellent example of this can be seen in Orange Disaster, where an electric chair is reproduced in 15 images that are identical both in colour and in size. The 15 images make up a uniform grid which covers the entire surfa [...]
	30/03/2012 19:00 Spot! Guggenheim Collection - Agnes Martin, White Flower, 1960 Approximately four square metres of canvas, criss-crossed by horizontal and vertical lines. These are the constants in Agnes Martin's best-known works, and they also define her painting entitled White Flower, in which each of the rectangles formed by the intersection of the lines is marked by two symmetrical pairs of dotted lines. Hailling originally from Canada, the [...]
	13/04/2012 19:00 Spot! Guggenheim Collection - Bruce Nauman, Live-Taped Video Corridor, 1970 The is one of the most famous works by this celebrated American artist from the West Coast, who was one of the first artists to spread his work over film, performance art, installations and environments. Starting in 1968, Nauman produced several different versions of Corridor, all of them structures that the observer can travel through yet all permeated with a sense of claustrophobia. I [...]
	27/04/2012 19:00 Spot! Guggenheim Collection - Chuck Close, Stanley, 1980-1981 In this large-scale oil portrait, the American artist depicts a travelling salesman whom he met on the beach. Working from a photograph, Close transfers the image onto a grid and then from that grid onto canvas by systematically applying small coloured dots to it. In this portrait too, as in other works of his, he adopts monumental proportions that go way beyond the life-size [...]