2024-01-05 06:30:00
Time.news – 2023 ends with a excellent result for the Peggy Guggenheim Collection which recorded over 378,000 presences during the 315 days of activity, with a daily average of 1,200 guests, thus closing the year almost on par with 2022. Added to this exceptional figure are over 5,000 people who visited the collection on the occasion of inaugurations , institutional, corporate and private events, and over 10,000 participants in Public Programs, Kids Day, accessibility programs, visits linked to the Guggenheim school project.
“We absolutely are satisfied with the results obtained in this 2023 which has just ended”, states the director Karole PB Vail. “In a year that saw Venice host the Architecture Biennale, as well as important art exhibitions organized by the various city institutions, our museum recorded an excellent number of visitors, which went beyond expectations.
We are thrilled with how critics and the public have received the homage dedicated to the Venetian spatialist Edmondo Bacci, and now the exhibition featuring Marcel Duchamp, praised by the press and loved by our visitors. Today we are already working on the exhibition program for the year, which you will see Jean Cocteau and Marina Apollonio at the center of two large monographs opening in April and October respectively, and naturally there will be no shortage of free collateral activities, Public Programs, and accessibility and inclusiveness projects, for all types of audiences and for our members”.
And if the exhibition Marcel Duchamp and the seduction of the copy, which will remain open until 18 March, has already attracted almost 90,000 visitors since its opening on 14 October, there is already great anticipation for the first retrospective ever held in Italy dedicated to Jean Cocteau, at the opening on April 13th.
With beyond one hundred and fifty works, among drawings, graphic works, jewels, tapestries, historical documents, books, magazines, photographs, documentaries, the exhibition sheds light on the eclecticism that always characterized Cocteau’s artistic language, thus tracing the development of the unique and very personal aesthetic ofenfant terribland the French art scene, retracing the salient moments of his tumultuous artistic career, as well as the friendship that linked him to Peggy Guggenheim.
It was precisely with an exhibition of drawings by Cocteau, suggested by Marcel Duchamp, that Guggenheim began his artistic career in the London gallery Guggenheim Jeune, in 1938. A tribute to Marina Apollonio will follow in the autumn. Beyond the Circle, the first solo exhibition dedicated to one of the most important protagonists of the international optical-kinetic movement, supported and collected by the American patron during the 1960s.
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