Arts of Africa Oceania and the Americas Why Grouped Together

Curated past Christa Clarke, R. Tripp Evans, Ellen McBreen, and Fanny Wonu Veys, with Vivien Greene.

I found myself the proud possessor of 12 fantastic artifacts, consisting of masks and sculptures from New Guinea, the Belgian Congo, the French Sudan, Peru, Brazil, United mexican states and New Republic of ireland.

Peggy Guggenheim, Out of This Century (London: Andre Deutsch, 1979)

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Inaugurated at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection on February 15, 2020 and airtight simply afterwards three weeks due to the pandemic, on October half dozen, 2021 the exhibition Migrating Objects: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection reopens to the public. It will be on view through Jan ten, 2022 thanks to the generosity of Pilar Crespi Robert—member of the Advisory Board of the Peggy Guggenheim Drove and Chair of the Executive Committee—and her husband Stephen Robert, Trustee of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York.

Peggy Guggenheim challenged boundaries as a patron and collector and is historic for her groundbreaking European and American mod art drove. Migrating Objects: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection focuses on a bottom-known, only crucial episode in Guggenheim's collecting: her turn in the 1950s and '60s to works created past artists in Africa, Oceania, and the indigenous Americas.

Migrating Objects represents a remarkable occasion to view 35 rarely seen not-Western artworks Guggenheim collected, shown at the Peggy Guggenheim Drove as a cohesive whole for the first time. This exhibition presents Guggenheim's African, Oceanic, and indigenous Americas objects in groupings privileging their original contexts or, alternately, in dialogue with European works from her collection by avant-garde artists who appropriated ideas from cultures beyond Europe's borders. These opposing modes of display enable an exploration of the flawed narratives that Western civilization imposed on objects of this kind.

Gallery

Flute figure, tardily 19th – early 20th century, unrecorded Chambri artist, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea , wood, dog teeth, conus shell, plant cobweb, natural pigment, 49 x 8 x 6 cm. Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York) 76.2553 PG 239
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D'mba headdress, probably first half of 20th century, unrecorded Baga artist, Guinea, wood and brass tacks, 142 ten 40 x 75 cm. Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York) 76.2553 PG 243
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Female effigy, 300 BCE–400 CE, unrecorded Nayarit artist (Ixtlán del Río culture), ancient West Mexico, slip-painted terracotta 42 x 24 10 13 cm. Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York) 76.2553 PG 264
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Migrating Objects emerges from an extended menstruation of research and discussion on this largely ignored area of Guggenheim'south collection ‎by a Curatorial Advisory Commission of experts, which has led to exciting findings, including the reattribution of individual works, among them the Nigerian headdress (Ago Egungun) produced by the workshop of Oniyide Adugbologe (ca. 1875–1949), which is on view in the exhibition.

The exhibition's Curatorial Advisory Committee comprises Christa Clarke, Contained Curator and Scholar, Arts of Global Africa, and Affiliate, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; R. Tripp Evans, Professor, History of Fine art, Wheaton College, Mass.; Ellen McBreen, Associate Professor, History of Art, Wheaton College, Mass.; and Fanny Wonu Veys, Curator, Oceania, National Museum of World Cultures, The Netherlands; with Vivien Greene, Senior Curator, 19th- and Early 20th-Century Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, who edited the exhibition catalogue.

Catalogue

The exhibition catalogue includes essays by the scholars of the Advisory Curatorial Commitee: Ellen McBreen, "Migrating Objects: From Maker to Museum" (read an excerpt); Christa Clarke, "'Fantastic Artifacts'": Peggy Guggenheim and African Fine art at Mid-Century" (read an excerpt); Fanny Wonu Veys, "Peggy Guggenheim and the Pacific"; R. Tripp Evans, "Guises of Commemoration: Peggy Guggenheim and the Funerary Arts of the Americas"; plates of the works in the collection, and a selected bibliography.
The book (two editions, ane in English and i in Italian) is a co-publication of the Peggy Guggenheim Drove with Marsilio, Venice.

A rich calendar of public programs accompanies the exhibition. All activities and events are inspired by the exhibition'south themes and are conceived for a range of audiences.

Programs focus on the notion of "migration" as "the permanent or temporary motility of groups of people from one state, place, or locality to another due to a variety of reasons, namely those related to improving one'southward living conditions." (Dizionario di Storia Treccani, 2010). Programs volition investigate on multiple levels the consequences of such movement on the part of both people and objects—who bring with them a diverseness of cultural, social, and religious values.

public programs

Kids Days

Workshops for children ages 4 to 10.
Nov 21, 2021, iii p.m.
December nineteen, 2021, iii p.grand.

Migrating Objects: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas in the Peggy Guggenheim Drove, has received the patronage of the UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency). The exhibition plan of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection is supported by the museum'due south Informational Committee. Educational activities related to the exhibition are underwritten by the Araldi Guinetti Foundation, Vaduz. Exhibitions at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection are supported by the Institutional Patrons, EFG, Lavazza, Sanlorenzo, and the companies which comprise the Guggenheim Intrapresæ group.

With the support of

EFG
Lavazza
Sanlorenzo

The exhibition is made possible by

Aermec + Allegrini + Apice + Arper + Davide Groppi + Distilleria Nardini + Florim + Foodies Bros + Gruppo Campari + Hangar Pattern Grouping + Istituto Europeo di Design + Mapei + René Caovilla + Rubelli + Swatch

public programs are made possible past

Fondazione Araldi Guinetti, Vaduz

In 2018 the Peggy Guggenheim Drove joined ASviS, the Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development that promotes the 17 Goals of the United nations 2030 Agenda. Public programs are part of this sensation process as they address, in item, Goal 4 to ensure quality education, Goal 5 to accomplish gender equality and Goal 10 to reduce inequality within and among countries.

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