Peggy Guggenheim Collection
from 6th June to 2nd September 2007

All in the present must be transformed: Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys
This exhibition, created by Nancy Spector, the curator of Contemporary Art and Director of Curatorial Affairs of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, will examine the affinities between the two artists who, though belonging to a different generation and geography, share lots of aesthetic and conceptual concerns. Such exhibition will focus on the metaphorical use of materials, the artists’ interest in metamorphoses, their choice of using narrative structures and the relationship between action and the documentation of their work. The works on show will be chosen by the Permanent Collection of Guggenheim Museum and they will be accompanied by a double selection of drawings and vitrines of the two artists, such as, for example, Barney’s multiple sculpture Chrysler Imperial (2002) and Cremaster 3, as well as Beuy’s installation Terremoto (1981).