The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is dedicating its spring exhibition to Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, paying tribute to one of the most fascinating figures in 20th-century art.
Guggenheim’s series on twentieth-century female artists is ever so successful. After a personal exhibition by Marina Apollonio, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection will dedicate its upcoming exhibition to Maria Helena Vieira da Silva. Curated by Flavia Frigeri, Anatomy of Space comprises some seventy pieces, on loan from the most prestigious international museums and private collections, to showcase the Portuguese artist’s production. Her art explores geometric spatiality and sensorial evocation using fractured architectures and breakaway perspectives. It seems to dissolve the border between real and imaginary space and to translate depth into a vibrant grid of signs, colours, and light.
The relationship between Maria Helena Vieira da Silva and Peggy Guggenheim dates back to the 1940s, when the artist was included in Exhibition by 31 Women, in New York, a pioneering event dedicated to female creativity. The exhibition we will see in Venice focuses on the artist’s production in France, from the 1930s to the 1980s, rendering her complexity and her ability to reinvent pictorial space.
