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An Art Patron's Extraordinary Life

Peggy Guggenheim was no ordinary art collector. In her lifetime, she acquired a treasure trove of Cubist and Surrealist artworks at bargain price right before the onset of the Second World War; she ran art galleries in London and New York championing then-little known artists such as Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell; and she also played a significant role in positioning Venice as a contemporary art city after she moved there permanently in 1948. After her death in 1978, her Venetian home, the 18th-century Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, was transformed into a permanent exhibition space housing the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. It is now the second most visited museum in the city after the Dodge’s Palace with over 427,000 visitors a year. But while her collection is primarily renowned for its Cubist, Surrealist and Abstract Expressionist masterpieces, the new exhibition “Peggy Guggenheim: The Last Dogaressa” – running until January 27, 2020 - is aiming to showcase how wide

Interview: Erwin Wurm on his Humanoid Sculptures

Erwin Wurm likes to distort forms. Over the years, he has slimmed down houses, fattened up cars, and used his own body to redesign the shape of furniture. “A lot of my work is about destroying one thing to create another,” the Austrian artist says of his process. One of his latest series, Stone , continues this exploration by setting small rocks on a pair of legs, giving a twist to the expression “carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders”. The small humanoid sculptures recall the Hypnosis series Wurm created in 2008, when Wurm used potato-like shapes to form the torso and head of a body in a highly polished aluminium finish on top of legs, in a contrasting matte finish. In the Stone series, the shiny aluminium potato shape has been replaced by a rock covered in greenish moss. Each work has a distinct and expressive personality due to the treatment of the white acrylic resin legs (variously posed, either standing, running, barefoot, or dressed). Inspired b

Zhang Jian-Jun’s Human Traces At the Royal Academy

His figurative works are perhaps less well known—largely because they have not always been exhibited—but portraiture either in oil or in photography has been recurring in his practice over the years. “Sometimes the portraiture is not facial,” he says, noting that for his 1997 mixed media installation Foot Print, he invited people to walk on a large stone island covered with water mixed with ink: “Around the island there was a canvas on the floor and after the people had walked on the stone, they would walk on the canvas leaving a faint footprint. Footprints are very individual, and over three months, there were endless footprints as people left their mark around the space. Although I didn’t draw in a face, the footprints were like a portrait of the people that came.” For Human Traces, Zhang has turned to Chinese ink and charcoal on paper to create a series of soulful portraits of 42 individuals he has met and interviewed while in London for his project. The portraits are now cr

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