Nancy Genn
Curated by Francesca Valente
Nancy Genn, one of the most significant California artists of the post World War II period, returns to Venice with a solo exhibition at Marignana Arte, curated by Francesca Valente.
A leading exponent of the informal art movement that developed around the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960s, Genn has been associated by the philosopher and art critic Michel Tapié with major international artists such as Carla Accardi, Alberto Burri, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Lucio Fontana, Emilio Vedova, as well as Robert Motherwell, Louise Nevelson, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko.
The leitmotif of her long creative journey is tireless experimentation with techniques and materials, cultivated during frequent travels especially to Japan. She was among the first artists in the United States to express herself with paper, used not only as a medium, but as an artifact, the object of her unique pioneering technique of manual production combining sculpture and painting.
Intimately connected to Italy and its artistic heritage, Nancy Genn is widely represented in the permanent collections of key Venetian cultural institutions such as the Giorgio Cini Foundation, the Fortuny Museum and the Ca’ Pesaro Museum of Modern Art.
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Watch the Youtube video about the relationship between Nancy Genn and Italy.
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L’agenda della settimana sono 11 mostre da vedere dal vivo in (quasi) tutta Italia, Silvia Airoldi, Elle Decor, April 2021
‘Inner Landscapes’, la retrospettiva di Nancy Genn da Marignana Arte, Elisa Baldassa, Exibart, April 2021
Carta, acqua e sol levante. Nancy Genn a Venezia, Irene Bagnara, Artribune, April 2021
“Inner Landscapes”, le opere di Nancy Genn alla Marignana, Veronica Tuzii, Il Corriere del Veneto, April 2021
I paesaggi interiori di Nancy Genn. L’anima cerca la calma nell’arte, Silva Menetto, La Nuova Venezia, April 2021
Nancy Genn. Il paesaggio in una dimensione interiore, Francesca Di Giorgio, Espoarte, April 2021
L’arte in galleria e la lista (im)possibile di mostre da non perdere, Nicola Maggi, Collezione da Tiffany, April 2021
Le mostre d’arte contemporanea da vedere in aprile 2021, Alice Traforti, The Art Post Blog, April 2021
Le sperimentazioni di Nancy Genn, Cristiana Campanini, Arte, April 2021
Inner Landscapes, installation view