Maria Helena Vieira da Silva's abstract canvases and Lucio Fontana's ceramics will be the focal points of Venice's Peggy Guggenheim Collection in 2025. From April 12 to September 15, the Peggy Guggenheim Museum honors Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908-1992), a female figure who was a pioneer in the twentieth-century cultural scene. The exhibit "Maria Helena Vieira da Silva: Anatomy of a Space" will be curated by Flavia Frigeri, art historian and curator at the National Portrait Gallery in London and will showcase the artist's pictorial creation to the public through a selection of approximately seventy works. Vieira da Silva has historical ties to Peggy Guggenheim, having been one of the thirty-one women featured in the collector's "Exhibition by 31 Women," held at the New York gallery Art of This Century in 1943. Additionally, Hilla Rebay, the first director of the Museum of Non-Objective Painting (later the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York), was one of Vieira da Silva's earliest supporters, acquiring Composition (1936) in 1937—a work still part of the museum’s collection. Starting October 11, 2025, the spotlight will shift to "Mani-Fattura: The Ceramics of Lucio Fontana," the first Italian museum exhibition dedicated to exploring the rich body of ceramic works by Lucio Fontana (1899–1968).
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