After the amazing exhibition focussing on the incredible restauration of what it is considered to be maybe the most famous work by Jackson Pollock, Alchemy, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection goes back to its fetish artist to present for the first time in Italy, Mural, that has been recently restored (1943, University of Iowa, Museum of Art, Iowa City).
Commissioned by Peggy Guggenheim for her New York apartment, with a length of six metres, Mural is the biggest work that Jackson Pollock had ever made, and it had a powerful effect on American art.
Mural is maybe the artwork, which with its audacity best represents the uninhibited personality of the artist and his exceptionally innovative talent. He created a painting that with its large – scale dimensions broke every dimensional rule and four years ahead of its time introduced the abstract graphic patterns obtained by using the painting technique of dripping and pouring.
Techniques that will culminate in the above mentioned work Alchemy, a masterpiece of the American abstract Expressionism, which is hanging not by chance next to Mural in the same exhibition area.
What are the chances in the future to see two of the most important works next to each other, works of a genius of the avant-garde who with his boldness changed the course of the history of art forever?
Jackson Pollock, Mural. Energy made visible.?
23 April > 16 November 2015
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Curator David Anfam
C.S.