The Painter Can’t Sleep - Symposium
Philip Guston
In the week preceding the closing of
the exhibition Philip Guston and The Poets, Le Gallerie dell’Accademia organized
a symposium entitled The Painter Can’t Sleep. The phrase is derived from a
series of drawings that are the result of the artistic and poetic relationship
between Philip Guston and Clark Coolidge, one of the most important American
living poets, which appears in several quotes also in the works exhibited on
display.
Kosme de Baranano curator of the
exhibition and poet Clark Coolidge
Coolidge was interviewed by de
Baranano during the symposium and told of his friendship and collaboration that
tied him to Guston. And, Musa Mayer and Pia Capelli read from Mayer’s book
Night Studio, A Memoir of Philip Guston by his daughter Musa Mayer.
Philip Guston – Clark Coolidge
Drawing – ink on paper – c.
1972-1975
The Painter Can’t Sleep – Symposium
Anders Bergstrom, Clark Coolidge,
Pia Capelli, Musa Mayer, Paola Marini, Peter Benson Miller, Federica Olivares
and Kosme de Baranano
Musa Mayer
After the symposium,
the book signing of the only available volume in Italian dedicated to the
figure of Philip Guston, published by Johan and Levi and written by Musa Mayer, the
daughter of the painter entitled Night Studio. Un Ritratto Intimo di Philip
Guston.
Margherita Alvera and Giovanna
Forlanelli
Ketty Alvera and Daniela Ferretti
Night Studio. Un Ritratto
Intimo di Philip Guston
Photograph of the artist by Edward Weston - 1930
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