For the first time in its history, an evening of dance and music at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection

For the first time in its history, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, home of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, becomes a place of contamination between disciplines as diverse as dance, music, and installation, making itself the stage for a series of performative interventions conceived by a new generation of artists and female artists. It will do so on the eve of the closing of the exhibition Edmondo Bacci. The Energy of Light and at the conclusion of the program of educational activities organized on the occasion of the exhibition. The event will be held on Sunday, September 17, from 7:30 to 11 p.m. and will be titled Event #1 TOLD WORLD.

In 1949, Peggy Guggenheim purchased Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, the unfinished palace on the Grand Canal, not only to make it her home and treasure chest for her art collection, but also to make it a space for dialogue and discussion for members of the local art milieu of the time. Emilio Vedova, Giuseppe Santomaso, Tancredi Parmeggiani and Bacci himself found in Palazzo Venier dei Leoni a place in which to develop their own poetics, sharing visions and cultivating their own research. Today as then, with Event #1 SAID WORLD, the museum intends to actualize and interpret the will of the American philanthropist to create a “research laboratory for new ideas [...], serving the future instead of recording the past,” becoming again a space of free expression for the Venetian art scene of the moment.

The title of the event stems from Bacci’s most famous series of paintings made in the 1950s, the Happenings: while the term “happening” refers to its counterpart “happening,” a form of avant-garde art that took hold in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, it also indicates an unpredictable event that acts on reality by rewriting the boundaries of the possible. The subtitle “Said World” is also a tribute to the Spatialist painter, who was amicably called that by those who knew him.

The goal of Advent #1 SAID WORLD, is to make a macro-world, that of Venice, the lagoon and the mainland, intertwine and mingle with the micro-world of the museum in which as many possible universes take turns. Exactly as in the Advents painted by Bacci, the evening will be free from any compositional scheme. A diffuse light installation curated by Cosimo Ferrigolo (1995), researcher, stage director and spatial designer, will animate the sculpture garden by transfiguring the space through moving lights inspired by the primary colors, iconic of Bacci’s painting. In this transformative process, performative incursions by a new generation of artists will follow one another, following a continuous flow, figures who have emerged from a simmering lagoon ecosystem and who, after years, return to occupy the spaces of Palazzo Venier dei Leoni. And so from the edible scenarios of the Serviteur Muet project, the result of the unprecedented collaboration between the Barena Bianca collective and the Sugar Koka project by painter Manuela Kokanovic, we will move on to the site-specific performances of two young artists, Francesco Corsi (1999) Ginevra Dolcemare (1994), who present for the museum spaces and the Marino Marini terrace, the works Interface and I’ll be your mirror. Other interventions that will take turns in the evening will be Ebbrezza distruttiva di una scimmia cappuccina, a performance by musician Jacopo Giacomoni (1987), while the collective Gli Impresari (Edoardo Aruta, Marco Di Giuseppe and Rosario Sorbello) together with Nicola Di Croce (1986) will create the performance installation entitled Il lanternista . The garden will be joined by performances The Atmospheres, choreography curated by movement and sound artist Francesca Heart (1992), and Death of Master, sound performance curated by visual artist and performer Marco-Augusto Basso (1995) together with Denise Tosato (1995).

Event #1 TOLD WORLD is curated by Edoardo Lazzari (1991), independent curator, educator and doctoral student at La Sapienza University of Rome. The evening is free admission, subject to availability. For more information guggenheim-venice.it.

For the first time in its history, an evening of dance and music at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection

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