Venice Biennale Special – Gallerie
dell’Accademia – Philip Guston and the Poets
“The joy of meaning in design
Wrenched out of chaos… The Quiet
Lamp
For this creator is a lamp
Enlarging like a nocturnal ray”
Wallace Stevens
At the Gallerie dell’Accademia the
exhibition Philip Guston and the Poets, until September 3, is curated by Prof.
Dr. Kosme de Baranano, and presents the
work of the pre-eminent American painter Philip Guston (1913–1980) exploring
the artist’s oeuvre in relation to critical literary interpretation.
Above. Magnet – 1975 – oil on canvas
– Signals – 1975 – oil on canvas.
copyright - The Estate of Philip Guston - Courtesy
Hauser & Wirth
Philip Guston - Untitled Self
Portrait - 1974
ink on paper
Kosme de Baranano – curator
Philip Guston
Red Sea – The Swell – Blue Light
1975 – oil on canvas
Philip Guston and The Poets’
considers the ideas and writings of major 20th century poets as catalysts for
his enigmatic pictures and visions. Featuring works that span a fifty-year
period in Guston’s artistic career. The exhibition draws parallels between the
essential humanist themes reflected in these works, and the language of five
poets: D. H. Lawrence (British, 1885 – 1930), W. B. Yeats (Irish, 1865 – 1939),
Wallace Stevens (American, 1879 – 1955), Eugenio Montale (Italian, 1896 – 1981)
and T. S. Eliot (American-born, British, 1888 – 1965).
T.S. Eliot
copyright - The Estate of Philip Guston - Courtesy
Hauser & Wirth
Philip Guston - East Coker – T.S.E.
1979 – oil on canvas
Musa Mayer – the artist’s daughter
Paola Marini director of Gallerie
dell’Accademia and art critic, Enzo Di Martino
Cosme Tura – Madonna dello Zodiaco –
1480 c. – panel
Philip Guston – Mother and Child –
1930 – oil on canvas
This museum exhibition, the first
for Guston in a city that exerted a profound influence upon his oeuvre, is a
reminder of the artist’s special relationship with Italy. As a young muralist,
his earliest influences were the frescoes of the Italian Renaissance masters,
and his love of Italian painting persisted throughout his career.
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