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<\/figure>\nThe collection as an autobiography of the twentieth century<\/h2>\n
Peggy Guggenheim\u2019s collection is not only a sequence of masterpieces: it is a biography assembled in images. Her choices follow the turning points of her life between Europe and the United States, friendships, loves, escapes from war and intuitions as an art dealer. Surrealism speaks of the circles she frequented in Paris and London, with artists such as Max Ernst, Magritte and Mir\u00f3; abstraction recalls Kandinsky, Mondrian and the desire to read the century through radically new forms.<\/p>\n
A decisive point is the American passage. In 1942 she opened the Art of This Century<\/em> gallery in New York, designed also to break the traditional way of exhibiting. There she supported Jackson Pollock when he was still far from international fame. For this reason, in front of his paintings, one sees not only the nascent Abstract Expressionism: one recognizes the risk taken by a collector capable of betting on a language not yet canonized.<\/p>\n The return to the lagoon also has autobiographical value. At the 1948 Biennale her collection was presented in the Greek pavilion, then unused, offering postwar Italy a direct confrontation with the avant-gardes. In the house-museum, works and spaces preserve that tension: private life, personal taste and art history can be read along the same path.<\/p>\n Dorsoduro helps one understand the house-museum even before entering. Arriving on foot from the Accademia, the Zattere or the Salute, the route alternates quiet calli, university campos, workshops and sudden openings onto the water: a less monumental rhythm than San Marco, more domestic and suited to the scale of the residence chosen by the American collector.<\/p>\n Inside, it is worth observing not only the paintings, but also the thresholds: the rooms, the terrace, the garden with the sculptures and the low fa\u00e7ade recall that the building remained unfinished. This architectural anomaly changes the visit: no grand noble apparatus, rather a dwelling open to the twentieth century, where modern art enters into dialogue with the lagoon.<\/p>\n To prepare, it is useful always to check the official website for updated details on opening hours, tickets and access, avoiding relying on outdated information.<\/p>\n Visiting the Peggy Guggenheim Collection is not only adding a museum to one\u2019s Venetian itinerary. It is stopping in a place where the city shows a discreet modernity, made of collecting, artistic intuitions and domestic spaces transformed into public narrative. After the rooms and the garden, Dorsoduro invites you to continue at a slow pace, among fondamenta, campos and views over the water. The value of the experience lies precisely in this continuity: leaving the palazzo with a few works in your eyes and finding, outside, a Venice that is less monumental but closer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The story of Peggy Guggenheim in Venice, between Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, the Grand Canal, twentieth-century art and daily life in Dorsoduro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[317,202,85,976,977,10],"class_list":["post-1560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arte-e-cultura","tag-arte-moderna","tag-canal-grande","tag-dorsoduro","tag-palazzo-venier-dei-leoni-en","tag-peggy-guggenheim-en","tag-venezia"],"yoast_head":"\nVisiting the museum in the rhythm of Dorsoduro<\/h2>\n