The Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents the largest museum retrospective organized in Italy dedicated to Marina Apollonio (b. 1940, Italy), one of the key figures of international Optical and Kinetic art, who was supported and collected by Peggy Guggenheim from as early as 1968.
The exhibition features approximately one hundred works on loan from the artist’s collection, as well as from national and international museums. Conceived as a deserved tribute to the Triestine artist, tracing her career from 1963 to the present, the show highlights her rigorous visual investigations encompassing painting, sculpture, drawing, as well as static, moving, and environmental works, black and white paintings, chromatic experimentations, and a variety of media and techniques.
Marina Apollonio: Beyond the Circle is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue, edited by Marsilio Arte, with essays by exhibition curator Marianna Gelussi, art historian Arnaud Pierre, art historian and director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Max Hollein, and an interview of the artist with curator and art historian Cecilia Alemani.
