Peggy Guggenheim Collection pays tribute to Jean Cocteau with an evening event dedicated to the performing arts

On the eve of the closing of the exhibition Jean Cocteau. The Juggler’s Revenge and at the conclusion of the program of collateral activities organized on the occasion of the exhibition, on Sunday, September 15 from 7:30 to 11 p.m. the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice will pay tribute to the multifaceted French artist with anextraordinary evening opening dedicated to the performing arts. In fact, the second edition of Avvenimento, a format inaugurated in 2023, will be held, during which the museum becomes a space for contamination between different artistic disciplines, from performance to dance, from music to installation.

The spaces of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection will therefore host a series of performative interventions during Avvenimento #2. This second edition, with the subtitle Ho amato un sogno?, curated by Edoardo Lazzari, with environmental intervention by Cosimo Ferrigolo, is inspired by the poetics of Jean Cocteau. Did I love a dream? is a recurring phrase of the eclectic French artist, chosen as much for its ambiguity as for being indicative of the obsessions that accompany the artist throughout his existence. The erotic and sexual, the dreamlike and the fantastic, the visible and the invisible, central themes of his poetics, will serve as the backdrop for the performance interventions presented for Advent #2.

Over the course of the evening, a continuous interdisciplinary dialogue between multiple artistic forms will animate the museum spaces and sculpture garden with the aim of exploring the boundaries between reality and fantasy, autobiography and imaginary narrative, experience and desire. Selected performances, some of which will be the result of the writing, poetry and chorus workshops conducted during the summer months, will engage the audience in an immersive and participatory experience, between dreamlike visions and moments of awareness of reality.

The evening is free admission, reservations required, subject to availability.

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Photo by Matteo De Fina.

Peggy Guggenheim Collection pays tribute to Jean Cocteau with an evening event dedicated to the performing arts

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