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The evolution of utopian ideas is the theme of the exhibition presented at Peggy Guggenheim Collection  from May 1 through July 25. Curated by Vivien Green, Curator of 19th- and Early 20th-Century Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Utopia Matters: from Brotherhoods to Bauhaus, is organized together with Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin

With more than 70 works of art, painting, sculpture, drawing, decorative art, design, photography, and printed matter, coming from some of the most important museums in the world, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, Tate Britain, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

The exhibition examine some of the faces that utopia can assume when embraced by artistic movements —from the brotherhoods of the 19th century to the avant-gardes of the period immediately following World War I. The groups addressed are the French Primitifs, the German Nazarenes, the English Pre-Raphaelites, English polymath William Morris and the international Arts and Crafts movement, the American Cornish art colony, French Neo-Impressionism, Dutch De Stijl, the German Bauhaus, and Russian Constructivism. The exhibition includes

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Peggy Guggenheim Museum
Indirizzo: Palazzo Venier dei Leoni - Dorsoduro 704 , 30123 Venezia
Orario: 10-18 (chiuso il martedì e il 25 dicembre)
Tel: 041.2405411
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Sito: www.guggenheim-venice.it