Marina Apollonio ,Beyond the circle

Marina Apollonio. Beyond the Circle edited by Marianna Gelussi, 184 pages , 1^ ed. 2024 - Catalogues - ENG - ISBN 9791254632345 Peggy Guggenheim Collection Contemporary art Marina Apollonio is among the most influential and representative artists of international Optical and Kinetic Art. Visual research and experimentation into techniques and materials are the distinguishing features of the prolific artistic activity of Marina Apollonio (Trieste, 1940), currently considered a leading exponent of Optical and Kinetic Art, whose production is emblematic of her rigorous and constant artistic experimentation, involving painting, sculpture and drawing; works that are static, in movement and environmental; black and white, research into colours. The catalogue, published by Marsilio Arte on the occasion of the retrospective of the same name, the largest ever realized in museums in Italy, "Marina Apollonio. Beyond the Circle" (Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 12 October 2024 - 3 March 2025) is edited, as indeed the exhibition is curated, by art historian Marianna Gelussi. The volume gathers together essays by the curator, art historian Arnauld Pierre and Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York Max Hollein, followed by an interview with the artist by Cecilia Alemani, curator and art historian. The exhibition itinerary looks back over Apollonio's artistic production from 1963 to today, through a hundred or so works coming from various national and international museum institutions, including the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome, the Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Turin, the MART in Rovereto, the Neue Galerie in Graz, the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen and the Ritter Museum in Waldenbuch in Germany, the Museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich and the Fondation Villa Datris de l'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in France. The catalogue looks back over the artist's career, highlighting the artist from Trieste's close links with Venice la Serenissima, starting with her début exhibition, in that very city, to her meeting in 1968 with Peggy Guggenheim at the Galleria Barozzi. On that occasion the arts patron commissioned Rilievo n. 505 from Apollonio, which is still part of the collection today, offering evidence of Guggenheim's great interest in the young avant-gardes. The exhibition in fact falls within in the showcasing tradition of the museum, which, as well as promoting exhibitions of international scale, also hosts events celebrating the protagonists of the national artistic scene since the Second World War promoted by Peggy Guggenheim, such as Edmondo Bacci, to whom the recent monographic was devoted, Tancredi Parmeggiani, and now, Marina Apollonio. book 40 ? Related products coll. Bibl.Jasdin 1