International Exhibitions

Giuseppe Capogrossi, Surface 45 (Superficie 45), 1950–51 (Detail). Oil on canvas, 74 x 220 cm. T. F. collection, Rome

Capogrossi: A Retrospective

September 29, 2012–February 10, 2013

Peggy Guggenheim Collection

This retrospective explores Giuseppe Capogrossi’s (1900–72) unique contribution to 20th–century art, tracing the evolution of his signature glyph in grandiose orchestrations of abstract mark and color. In collaboration with Rome’s Fondazione Archivio Capogrossi and with support from the President of the Italian Republic and the Italian Ministry of Culture, Capogrossi: A Retrospective brings together over seventy paintings and drawings in a long overdue examination of the artist’s career.

Egon Schiele, Old houses in Krumau (Detail), 1914. Opaque color and pencil on Japanese vellum, 32.5 x 48.5 cm. Albertina, Vienna, 31158

Egon Schiele

October 2, 2012–January 6, 2013

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Exploring approximately one hundred works, Egon Schiele presents a comprehensive approach to the great Austrian Expressionist’s universe through a selection of drawings, gouaches, and watercolors from the Albertina, Vienna. The exhibition traces a course through Schiele’s oeuvre and stylistic evolution, examining early works created while he was attending the Akademie der bildenden Künste (Academy of Fine Arts) in Vienna, pieces he created while influenced by Gustav Klimt and Viennese Secession, and his departure from naturalism through a radical treatment of color to the use of new, disconcerting motifs, such as explicit, erotic nudes.

Cristina Iglesias, Untitled (Alabaster room) (Sin título [Habitación de alabastro]), 1993. Iron and alabaster, overall dimensions variable. Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa

Inhabited Architecture

September 19, 2012–May 19, 2013

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Inhabited Architecture examines art from the permanent collections of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in order to conceive of the occupation of space as a place full of existing narratives or narratives yet to be created. Exhibiting selected collection works for the first time at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Inhabited Architecture presents Liam Gillick’s How are you going to behave? A kitchen cat speaks (2009), Doris Salcedo’s Untitled (2008), Mona Hatoum’s Home (1999), Pello Irazu’s Life Forms 304 (2003), and Cristina Iglesias’s Untitled (Alabaster Room) (Sin título [Habitación de alabastro], 1993).

Robert Delaunay, Simultaneous Windows (2nd Motif, 1st Part) (Les fenêtres simultanées [2e motif, 1re partie]), 1912 (Detail). Oil on canvas, 55.2 x 46.3 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, By gift 41.464

Visions of Modernity

November 15, 2012–February 17, 2013

Deutsche Guggenheim

Featuring works by Paul Cézanne, Robert Delaunay, Vasily Kandinsky, and Pablo Picasso, among others, Visions of Modernity explores the intriguing parallels between a diverse group of art enthusiasts whose lives intersected over several decades and brought some of the most significant artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries to light.