The Peggy Guggenheim Collection celebrates Peggy's birthday with a concert

OnMonday, Aug. 26 at 9 p.m., on the occasion of Peggy Guggenheim ’s birthday, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice celebrates its founder with its annual concert, in the sculpture garden, reserved for the Friends of the museum. Performing will be the quartet Quatuor Tchalik. The members are siblings who grew up in a family in which music played a central role; they have made music together since early childhood, and today they play instruments and bows made especially for them by luthier Philippe Mitéran and bowmaker Konstantin Cheptitski, a detail that further underscores the ensemble’s extraordinary fellowship. The Quatuor Tchalik has performed at festivals such as the Festival Radio France Occitanie in Montpellier, the Chopin Festival in Nohant, the Flâneries Musicales in Reims, the Rheingau Festival in Germany, and has been invited by the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and the Philharmonies in Cologne and Dresden. Two compositions for strings by Gabriel Fauré and Camille Saint-Saëns will be performed during the evening. The concert is made possible thanks to a collaboration with Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française, a Venice-based institution devoted to the revalorization of the French musical repertoire of the 19th century through concerts, recordings, book publications and scores.

Born Aug. 26, 1898, in New York City, Marguerite Guggenheim, better known as Peggy, was a passionate collector, discoverer and friend of artists, far-sighted patron and philanthropist, among the pivotal figures in the dissemination of art. Peggy Guggenheim became a promoter and supporter of the major avant-garde movements that emerged between Europe and the New World, from Cubism to Abstractionism, from Surrealism to American Abstract Expressionism, focusing on then-unknown talents, first and foremost Jackson Pollock. A determined woman, always open to the world, a free and revolutionary spirit who went against the bourgeois social conventions of the time. Throughout her existence, and still today, writers, critics, journalists and photographers have helped solidify her image as a muse of the arts.

The August 26 event is reserved for Friends of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, subject to availability.

For more information write to membership@guggenheim-venice.it or call 041.2405.429/440

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection celebrates Peggy's birthday with a concert

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