This is the first exhibition in Italy of the painting of Charles Seliger (1926-2009). It focuses on the first decade of his career, when his work was inspired by European Surrealism, which had shifted its centre of activities from Paris to New York. More than thirty of his best paintings from the 1940s (from both public and private collections) trace Seliger's origins as an artist, and explore the route by which he arrived at his mature style in the early 1950s. Peggy Guggenheim gave Seliger his first solo exhibition, in 1945 at Art of This Century, New York. Organized by The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, USA.