Jackson Pollock’s Mural: Energy Made Visible, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, through November 16, 2015
In an interesting twist of fate, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection is showing Jackson Pollock's epochal fresco “Mural”; Peggy Guggenheim specially commissioned the work for her townhouse, but when she later moved to Europe, she no longer had the space for it and gave it away to the University of Iowa. At 2.7m tall and 6m wide, “Mural” is the largest painting Pollock ever created. Whilst creating the work, Pollock discovered a completely new method of self-expression. Faced with the intimidatingly large canvas in 1943, Pollock filled it with a burst of amazing energy that permeates the artwork with dynamic vitality – it literally embodies the essence of abstract expressionism. Pollock discovered his own signature “gestural musculature” in the making of “Mural”. This showing has been curated by David Anfam, the British art historian, critic and expert on abstract expressionism.
Dorsoduro, 701-704, 30123 Venezia
Jackson Pollock. Mural, 1943. University of Iowa Museum of Art, Gift of Peggy Guggenheim, 1959
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