The exhibition as cornucopia — as an overwhelming array of found objects selected and arranged by an artist — has become something of a trend. You could call it the return of the repressed: a way for stringent conceptually motivated sensibilities to re-engage with materials and objects.

“The Hugo Boss Prize 2012: Danh Vo I M U U R 2” at the Guggenheim Museum is the latest example of these ready-made deluges. Organized by Katherine Brinson, an associate curator, it is also one of the best. Which doesn’t mean your eyes won’t occasionally glaze over. It has been conceived and orchestrated by Danh Vo (pronounced yon voh), an artist born in Vietnam who grew up in Denmark and is the 2012 recipient of the museum’s biennial Hugo Boss Prize. (Its overlap with Asia Week is fortuitous.)

His mostly lively, high-density Guggenheim installation is a homage to the artist Martin Wong (1946-99) that is consistent with Mr. Vo’s self-effacing, shape-shifting art and his tendency to function as much as a curator or archaeologist as an artist. That said, it certainly runs counter to his penchant for spare, ephemeral works.

The installation consists of nearly 4,000 frequently small artworks, artifacts and tchotchkes that once belonged to Wong, crowded into a specially designed gallery lined with handsome laminated plywood shelves. The show’s open-armed Whitmanesque title — I am you and you are too — appeared on Wong’s calling card.