Gražina Subelytė, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Okamoto
Tarō and Kurt Seligmann: The Magical Myth of Tomorrow
Gražina Subelytė is a curator at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, where she is
currently organizing a large-scale exhibition “Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted
Modernity,” opening in April 2022 in Venice. Her PhD dissertation (Courtauld
Institute of Art, London) centers on the magical undercurrents of Kurt
Seligmann’s work. She has recently written a preface to a new edition of
Seligmann’s book “The Mirror of Magic. A History of Magic in the Western World”
and she has collaborated with the Taro Okamoto Museum of Art in Japan on
several occasions, including its recent exhibition on Seligmann and Okamoto.