Venice, 20 April. (askanews) – An opportunity to take stock of the presence of museums and the Guggenheim Foundation in the world, in the scenario of a Venice that is experiencing the opening days of the 60th Art Biennale. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection welcomed directors and curators from New York, Bilbao and Abu Dhabi and Mariet Westermann, appointed director and CEO of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum, spoke about what has been done, and above all what still remains to be done. ‘it has to be done.
“Looking forward – he said from the terrace of Palazzo Venier dei Leoni – my goal is that we can use our considerable global presence, which we have been building for years, to broaden our impact as a dynamic constellation, to do even more to support of artists and the presence of art in people’s lives, both in our museums and in the online world”.
Also speaking alongside Westermann were Juan Ignacio Vidarte, director of the Guggenheim Bilbao, Naomi Beckwith, Chief Curator of the Guggenheim New York and Stephanie Rosenthal, director of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Project. In addition, of course, to the hostess, Karole Vail, director of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. “A great moment of synergy – Vail told us – a very dynamic moment and I think that this is also reflected very well between us and this enthusiasm also in organizing programmes, educational activities, in a spirit of common collaboration which reflects the strength and energy of the Guggenheim of the world”.
An energy that obviously passes through the collections, but also through temporary exhibition projects, such as the one recently inaugurated in Venice and dedicated to Jean Cocteau, a twentieth-century genius closely linked to Peggy Guggenheim.
