Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict

classified 15
Film

Please note: This was screened in Dec 2015

Director
Lisa Immordino Vreeland
Cast
Various
Details
96 mins, 2015, USA/Italy/UK

Bouncing between Europe and the United States as often as she would between lovers, Peggy Guggenheim’s life was as swirling as the design of her uncle’s museum, and reads more like fiction than any reality imaginable. Peggy Guggenheim – Art Addict offers a rare look into Guggenheim’s world: blending the abstract, the colourful, the surreal and the salacious, to portray a life that was as complex and unpredictable as the artwork Peggy revered and the artists she pushed forward.

Lisa Immordino Vreeland, whose acclaimed debut feature documentary followed the life of Harper's Bazaar fashion editor Diana Vreeland, turns her lens towards Peggy Guggenheim: a fascinating woman who defined and assembled the premier collection of 20th century modern art. Immordino Vreeland examines how Guggenheim's personal friendships with major masters from every discipline, including Duchamp, Cocteau, Beckett and Rothko, was inseparably interwoven into her duty towards contemporary art. While fighting through personal tragedy, Guggenheim maintained her vision to build one of the most important collections of modern art, now enshrined in her Venetian palazzo.

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