The Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi has during the year a varied program of exhibitions of high quality and internationally.
Within the frame of a masterpiece of Florentine Renaissance architecture, in the spaces of the main floor and the Strozzina, the Foundation organizes art exhibits ranging from ancient art to the Renaissance up to modern and contemporary art.
From 19 March to July 24, 2016 Palazzo Strozzi will host a large view leading to Florence over 100 masterpieces of European and American art in the 1920s and the 1960s, rebuilding relations between the two sides of the Ocean, in a sign of the figures of the American collectors Peggy and Solomon Guggenheim.
Curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, the exhibition is a collaboration between the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Solomon r. Guggenheim in New York and makes a great comparison of major works of European masters of modern art as Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Man Ray and so-called informal European Alberto Burri, Emilio Vedova, Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, along with great paintings and sculptures by some of the greatest personalities of American art of the fifties and sixties as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Alexander Calder, Roy Lichtenstein, Cy Twombly.
Dedicate an exhibit at the Guggenheim collections paced means telling the birth neoavanguardia after World War II in an intense and constant dialogue between European and American artists. This extraordinary exhibition in Florence also means celebrating a special link that takes you back in time. It is precisely at the Palazzo Strozzi, in fact, in the spaces of the Strozzina, Peggy Guggenheim in February 1949, recently arrived in Europe, he decided to show the collection then you can find a permanent location in Venice.
The large paintings, sculptures, and photographs exhibited at Palazzo Strozzi, on loan from the Guggenheim collections in New York and Venice and from other prestigious international museums offer a glimpse of that extraordinary and exciting season of twentieth century art of which Peggy and Solomon Guggenheim were decisive actors.
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