1st May – 25th July 2010
Peggy Guggenheim Collection

Since 1st May 2010 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice has been exhibiting ‘Utopia Matters. From the Brotherhoods to the Bauhaus’’. On display there are more than works of art including paintings, sculptures, drawings, design items, photos and printed matter which aim at examining the evolution of utopian ideas in modern Western thought and practice, by considering a series of international case studies that reveal lots of the faces that utopia assumes if it is embraced by artistic movements, from the brotherhoods of the 19th century to the avant-gardes of the first post-war period. The movements which are involved are the French Primitifs, the German Nazarenes, the English Pre-Raphaelites, English polymath William Morris with the international Arts and Crafts movement, the American Cornish Colony, French Neo-Impressionism, Dutch De Stijl, the German Bauhaus and the Russian Constructivism. More than fifty artists will be on display, thanks to the loans from the most important museums in the world, from the Metropolitan Museum to the Solomon R.Guggenheim, from the Moma to the Brooklyn Museum of New York, from the Tate Britain to the Victoria and Albert Museum of London. This exhibition is organized together with the Deutsche Guggenheim of Berlin and it will last until 25th July 2010. TD