{"id":8946,"date":"2024-04-12T16:50:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T14:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/?post_type=magazine&#038;p=8946"},"modified":"2024-04-22T12:56:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T10:56:33","slug":"exhibition-jean-cocteau-venice-peggy-guggenheim-collection","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/exhibition-jean-cocteau-venice-peggy-guggenheim-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"In Venice, a major exhibition on Jean Cocteau, brilliant juggler of art"},"content":{"rendered":"Encapsulating Jean Cocteau\u2019s artistic philosophy in a single definition is a futile undertaking. The exhibition that the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice dedicates to the French poet, critic, visual artist and director who brought the language of the avant-garde to the wider public starts from this fact. The curator Kenneth E. Silver tells us a little bit about him<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nThe first large-scale Italian retrospective honouring one of the most versatile and revolutionary authors of the last century is titled <em>Jean Cocteau. The Juggler\u2019s Revenge<\/em>. Presented at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice until 16 September 2024, the exhibition traces Cocteau\u2019s career and his tendency to elude labels and definitions. Over one hundred and fifty works \u2012 from drawings to graphic works, from jewellery to tapestries to films \u2012 offer a glimpse into the imagination and artistic practice of a character who made history. We talked about it with the curator Kenneth E. Silver, an authoritative expert on Cocteau.<br \/>\r\n<h2>THE INTERVIEW WITH KENNETH E. SILVER<\/h2><br \/>\r\n<strong>Poet, novelist, critic, visual artist. Jean Cocteau was a concentration of creativity that cannot be easily labeled. What aspects of his personality are highlighted by the exhibition at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice?<\/strong><br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nWe\u2019re highlighting his extraordinary range in <em>Jean Cocteau. The Juggler\u2019s Revenge<\/em>, with a special emphasis on the brilliance of Cocteau\u2019s visual ideas. The artistic manifestations of his queerness and of his opium addition (both ecstatic and agonized) are also important in our presentation.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<strong>Among the works on display, which ones best summarize Cocteau&#8217;s poetics? <\/strong><br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nIn the exhibition, we\u2019re showing his film <em>Beauty and the Beast<\/em>, of 1947, in its entirety. It\u2019s a collaborative work of art in which the verbal and the visual are inextricably linked, and a splendid manifestation of Cocteau\u2019s poetic universe in all its astonishing diversity.<br \/>\r\n<h2>JEAN COCTEAU IN VENICE<\/h2><br \/>\r\n<strong>The link between Jean Cocteau and Peggy Guggenheim, as well as the link with Venice, is a fundamental element of his story. Can you tell us more about it? <\/strong><br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nPeggy Guggenheim\u2019s inaugural exhibition at her London gallery, Guggenheim Jeune, on Cork Street (January 24-February 12, 1938), was dedicated to the art of Jean Cocteau, and a number the works from that show are included in <em>Jean Cocteau: The Juggler\u2019s Revenge.<\/em> When Cocteau\u2019s feature film career was in full-swing in the late-1940s and 1950s, he regularly attended the Venice Film Festival, both as an exhibitor and an audience member, and would visit Peggy Guggenheim at her Palazzo on the Grand Canal. Cocteau also created objects at Egidio Costantini\u2019s glassworks at Murano, which he helped to revive in the postwar years, and personally rename \u201cLa Fucina degli Angeli\u201d (The Foundry of the Angels). Cocteau visited Venice as a youth and remained fascinated by the city his entire life.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<strong>What role did Cocteau play in the art scene of his time and how did he influence subsequent generations?<\/strong><br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nCocteau was involved in most of the key avant-garde art movements of the first half of the twentieth century, including Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism. He worked with Serge Diaghilev\u2019s Ballets Russes and Rolf de Mar\u00e9\u2019s Ballet Su\u00e9dois, and was an early experimental film-maker. As a child of the Parisian Right Bank but also an immensely ambitious avant-garde poet and visual artist, Cocteau&#8211;more than anyone else&#8211;is responsible for bringing together the worlds of high society and bohemia. He popularized the idea of advanced art for the public at large, and made the avant-garde aware of the big world beyond their enclaves in Montmartre and Montparnasse.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<strong>Interview by Arianna Testino<\/strong>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categorie_magazine":[343],"class_list":["post-8946","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","hentry","categorie_magazine-words-from-marte"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>In Venice, a major exhibition on Jean Cocteau, brilliant juggler of art - Marsilio Arte<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Peggy Guggenheim Collection hosts an exhibition dedicated to the French poet, critic, visual artist and director Jean Cocteau\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/exhibition-jean-cocteau-venice-peggy-guggenheim-collection\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In Venice, a major exhibition on Jean Cocteau, brilliant juggler of art\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Peggy Guggenheim Collection hosts an exhibition dedicated to the French poet, critic, visual artist and director Jean Cocteau\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/exhibition-jean-cocteau-venice-peggy-guggenheim-collection\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Marsilio Arte\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MarsilioArte\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-04-22T10:56:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/05_cocteau-orpheus-mirror-1960-closed-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1808\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@MarsilioArte\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/exhibition-jean-cocteau-venice-peggy-guggenheim-collection\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/exhibition-jean-cocteau-venice-peggy-guggenheim-collection\/\",\"name\":\"In Venice, a major exhibition on Jean Cocteau, brilliant juggler of art - 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