The exhibit presents around fifty paintings, partly reproposing (through the contribution of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection) the previous set up, to which other important and significant Pollock works were added, so as to illustrate the whole artistic journey of the father of Action Painting.

The Venetian initiative however does not stop here. At the Cultural centre Candiani in Mestre there is another event grouping the works of the most famous 'Irascible', that New York School of which Pollock was a peak representative and which counts  names such as Rothko, Gorky, Barnett Newman, De Kooning and Lee Krasner, wife of Jackson, often forgotten and now re-appreciated by the art historian (among the event's organisers) Ellen Landau as ''pioneer of abstract expressionism".

The two exhibitions, as the manager of the Venetian Civic Museums and president of the Scientific Committee of the event Giandomenico Romanelli pointed out, can be visited with the same ticket and one after the other, following a trail that recreates the sensations of an age, from 1935 to 1956, the year of Pollock's premature death in a road accident.

There is also a lot of Peggy Guggenheim in this event, which presents itself among one of the most interesting of Venetian spring. Peggy, as the director of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection Philips Rylands pointed out, was the first to follow with eagerness the activity of that painter from the edge, a victim of his alcoholism and possessor of an impossible temper.
 

L'America di Pollock; Gli Irascibili e la "Scuola di New York"
Where: Museo Correr, Venezia. Piazza San Marco, ingresso Ala Napoleonica; Centro Culturale Candiani, Mestre
When: until 30 June 2002 
Opening times:  every day 900 to 1900
Tickets: 10 euro, 8 euro conc.
Info: tel. 041-5225625 

May.2002

The exhibition  (In Italian)
Guggenheim Collection
Review of Peggy Guggenheim museum in Venice