The Peggy Guggenheim Collection will dedicate a retrospective to the celebrated Italian painter Giuseppe Capogrossi (1900 – 1972), bringing together a selection of works by this key figure in Italian postwar art. The show opens with his early figurative works, painted in strong tones and charged with poetical significance, and culminates with his abstract works of the 1950s and 1960s, in which symbols and signs dominate the canvas, and in which organic forms are not imitated but assimilated. Like exhibitions previously dedicated to Adolph Gottlieb, Lucio Fontana, William Baziotes, Jackson Pollock, Germaine Richier and Richard Pousette-Dart, this exhibition investigates a master of the Italian and international avant-garde in the decades following World War II.