“I meet him almost daily in the Calle near my home or at the Traghetto,” Peggy Guggenheim wrote of the painter Edmondo Bacci. “I never get to know him any better. . . . But his paintings, that is another matter. I know them. They are children of today. They are dynamic. They are the atomic bomb on canvas.” A Venetian native, Bacci was most active during the 1950s, when he was a proponent of Spatialism, a movement that explored the relationship between light, movement, art, and technology. His best known series, “Avvenimenti,” is extraordinary. Bacci’s canvases feature ruptured spatial plans, circular brushstrokes, and a dizzying command of color theory. Just a bridge away from Bacci’s former home, 80 works from that fruitful decade are on view. —Elena Clavarino
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Edmondo Bacci: Energy and Light
Edmondo Bacci, Avvenimento #27, 1954.
When
Apr 1 – Sept 18, 2023
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Photo: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York
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Peggy Guggenheim Collection