until Sunday September 08 2013
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Palazzo Venier dei Leoni
T : +39 041 24 05 411
Dorsoduro 701
Venice
Italy
This focused exhibition at Peggy Guggenheim Collection is devoted to Motherwell’s papiers collés and related works on paper executed during his first decade of art making (1941–1951). Featuring more than 40 works, the exhibition also honors Peggy Guggenheim’s early patronage of the artist.
By cutting, tearing and layering pasted papers, Motherwell reflected the tumult and violence of the modern world, establishing him as an essential and original voice in postwar American art.
Motherwell produced both abstracted figural collages and pure abstraction collages. However, by 1952 Surrealist influences prevalent in these first works had given way to his distinctive mature style, firmly rooted in Abstract Expressionism.
