Vis-à-Vis, contemporary dialogues between great artists. Kicking off with Caravaggio and Kandinsky

From the collaboration between the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and the Pinacoteca di Brera comes the new Vis-à-Vis project: six great protagonists of art history will dialogue thanks to the voices of the two directors of the museum venues. Karole P. B. Vail, director of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, and James Bradburne, director of the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan, whose museums hold some of the most iconic masterpieces of Italian and international art from the 15th to the 20th century, will bring to life true contemporary dialogues between Caravaggio and Vasily Kandinsky, Raphael and Max Ernst, Piero della Francesca and Piet Mondrian.

They will compare Caravaggio’s The Supper at Emmaus (1605-1606) and Kandinsky’s Landscape with Red Spots No. 2 (1913), Raphael’s The Marriage of the Virgin (1504) and Ernst’s The Dressing of the Bride (1940), Piero della Francesca’s Madonna and Child with Saints, Angels and Federico da Montefeltro (1472-74) and Mondrian’s Composition No. 1 with Gray and Red 1938 / Composition with Red 1939 (1938-39).

The three videos will be available online on the social channels of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and the Pinacoteca di Brera and are intended to demonstrate how art is always contemporary, in all its times, and therefore expresses common values and visions that continue to inspire the present.

The first dialogue featuring Caravaggio and Kandinsky is already online. “Caravaggio was one of the greatest contemporary artists of his time who forever transformed the practice of Western painting,” Bradburne pointed out. “Throughout his long cosmopolitan career Kandinsky faced personal challenges as he continued to experiment, change, and reinvent his art and himself,” Vail pointed out.

Other dialogues will follow in January and February 2021.

“Art can be consolation, inspiration, or even revelation and can help us understand the world we live in,” the two directors said.

Vis-à-Vis, contemporary dialogues between great artists. Kicking off with Caravaggio and Kandinsky

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