Articles of ‘Peggy Guggenheim Collection’

Tancredi Parmeggiani: My Weapon Against the Atom Bomb is a Blade of Grass.

Tancredi Parmeggiani: My Weapon Against the Atom Bomb is a Blade of Grass.

Peggy Guggenheim Collection - Venice, Italy
Curated by Luca Massimo Barbero
By Irina Leyva-Pérez
Italian painter Tancredi, who was born Tancredi Parmeggiani in Feltre, Italy, in 1927 and died in Rome in 1964, was a prolific artist whose impressive international career was cut short by his premature death at the age of 37. In addition, the [...]


Wim Delvoye’s Torre in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection

Wim Delvoye’s Torre in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection

 

By Lara Pan in collaboration with Bjorn Scherlippens
 

Torre, the first piece of monumental architecture to come out of Wim Delvoyes’ workshop, has a made a strong debut at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Installed over the course of this year’s Venice Biennial, the 10 meter tall tower arose just a stone’s throw away from the tourist [...]