What do you think about if you hear the phrase “Peter Pan“? The primary issues that come to my thoughts are freedom, childhood, play, no obligations, and a variety of enjoyable. However there’s a lot extra to Peter Pan than simply these imaginary musings.
DIDIER AND VALENTINE GUILLON began with the thought of ambivalence, and of the adjustments of state … [+]
Essentially the most fascinating factor about artwork is that its interpretation is so particular person to every viewer. Curated by Venice Artwork Manufacturing facility, Fondation Valmont exhibits its new exhibition, Peter Pan. La nécessité du rêve, at Palazzo Bonvicini within the coronary heart of Venice, Italy (which is being mentioned, has many parallels to Neverland). Peter Pan is Fondation Valmont’s fourth present inside a collection of re-interpretations of traditional fairy tales like Hansel & Gretel, adopted by a declaration of devotion with Venetian Love and Alice in Doomedland. Peter Pan (coinciding with Biennale in Venice) exhibits 4 completely different interpretations and re-imaginations of Peter Pan by 5 artists.
DIDIER AND his daughter VALENTINE GUILLON “Blessing in Disguise” as a part of Peter Pan at Palazzo … [+]
A big participant firmly anchored in Venice’s cultural life, Fondation Valmont intends to current the 30 artists and the 200 works making up its everlasting assortment whereas inviting related artists to take part in bold reflections launched by Didier Guillon. Didier Guillon will not be solely the founding father of the Fondation Valmont but additionally an artist and the proprietor of the family-run Valmont Cosmetics Group.
“Luxurious goes hand in hand with artwork in all of the Valmont Group. To make an on a regular basis product extraordinary for a restricted version or to sublimate a brand new launch by a murals, each creation is a dialogue between artwork and cosmetics – with engaged visuals, distinctive restricted editions, and extra,” says Guillon.
STEPHANIE BLAKE selected to deal with the subject of freedom, taken to imply detachment from private … [+]
“Does the everlasting youth that Peter Pan represents coincide with the imaginative and prescient of Valmont’s anti-aging beauty line?” I ask Guillon Didier. “In fact,” he replies. “It’s a nice parallel to our work at Valmont Group and to the goals of our shoppers.“ He provides, ”Everybody wants an escape hatch from on a regular basis life, someplace they’ll go of their thoughts.“
Luca Berta, the exhibition’s curator, chimes in and says, “Peter Pan embodies this fantasy of escape and freedom higher than anybody else. However Peter is half-human, half-bird. As adults and actual folks, we can’t take to the air and fly over a freedom that, as soon as gained, is ceaselessly ours. We would not have on a regular basis on the planet. The issue is that typically we simply overlook how youngsters see the world.”
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“Peter Pan, then, will not be a paradigm of an artist nonetheless in contact with the kid’s creativeness, as many wish to see it. Fairly, it’s an allegory of a Dionysiac place, ruled by the anomaly of a always altering reversal of values and the will for energy of a childishly unconquerable ego, free from any pretense of accountability. And, that is simply the place that each artist, if artist they want to be, should first go to,” he explains.
SILVANO RUBINO addressed the subject of infinity, round temporality, and the will impulse.
Throughout a workshop on the island of Hydra, the curators requested the artists to reinterpret Peter Pan on their very own phrases. Every artist learn the e book on their very own, then got here up with concepts that symbolize their very own notion of the advanced (but so easy) determine of Peter Pan, of freedom, of goals.
Peter Pan. La nécessité du rêve at Fondation Valmont, will run by 26.02.2023.
