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12/10/2012

Alberto Giacometti

Fundacion Proa, Buenos Aires

Curator: Véronique Wiesinger

The first retrospective in South America of the sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti, one of the greatest figures of 20th Century art.

Through more than 130 works, the exhibition covers all his periods, from the initial stage in his native Switzerland, African art in the 1920s, and his most famous studies of heads and portraits, his emblematic female and walking figures in the 1940s, 50s and 60s. A timeline that allows us to appreciate the various disciplines experimented by Giacometti throughout his career (sculpture, painting, drawing, engraving, decorative art), and the revolution produced to the sculptural practice.

The works selected by Véronique Wiesinger belong to Giacometti Foundation in Paris.

Alberto Giacometti in Proa
Adriana Rosenberg

“A Giacometti exhibition is a town. He sculpts men that cross paths in a square without
seeing one another; they are inevitably alone and yet together.” Jean Paul Sartre

To present and address Alberto Giacometti’s oeuvre means to experience the most fundamental and radical aspects of art from the last century. To take in his territory means to delve into a morass of formulations where the image we see interrogates us respectfully, inciting admiration and surprise. It is the eruption of emptiness, of silence, of subjectivity, and of a particular and unique way of representing the human figure.

Friend to the philosophers of the time and engaged in the evolution of existence, he wrote: “[…] the only thing that can fill us with passion is discovering a new strain, a new space, sensing it in a penumbra barely touched by light. That is the sphinx that once in a while shares a word of its enigma, and all of those words constitute the sum of human knowledge. That knowledge is a faint gleam that always quivers in the unknown, in what surrounds us, what touches us, what penetrates and envelops us […]” (Writings, p. 364)

There are many reasons it is significant to present this exhibition of the work of Alberto Giacometti. Due to the value of his thinking and of his art, his figure continues to gain recognition.

Curated by Véronique Wiesinger, this exhibition of a fundamental artist, sculptor, painter and draftsman evidences the breadth of his formulations. The 150 works it contains were selected from the collection of the Alberto and Annette Giacometti Foundation in Paris in order to encompass each of the most emblematic moments in his life and work.

Thanks to a joint effort with the Pinacoteca of San Pablo, the Museu de Arte Moderna of Rio de Janeiro and Fundación Proa, this is the first time this exhibition has been held in South America. In the editions in Brazil and Argentina, the curator has included works from collections housed in those countries.

The catalog contains reproductions of a selection of the works exhibited, as well as a curatorial statement, a selection of Giacometti’s writings and an interview with him, and new research on Giacometti in Brazil and Argentina.

It would not have been possible to exhibit this remarkable body of work without the tireless effort and commitment of the team at Base7 which organized the exhibition for the three sites. We would also like to thank the Annette and Alberto Giacometti Foundation in Paris for the generous loan of such valuable holdings.

We would once again like to thank a great many institutions, embassies and groups of individuals working in a number of countries, and most especially the board of Tenaris, Organización Techint, who supported this exhibition in both Brazil and Argentina, thus affirming a commitment to communicating work crucial to the understanding of 20th-century thought and art.

Organization: Alberto and Annette Giacometti Foundation / Base7 Projetos Culturais / Fundación Proa Traveling to Pinacoteca do Estado, Sao Paulo / Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro

With the support of Tenaris - Organización Techint

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Contemporary Space
Oxymoron

Curator: Daniel Molina
Artists: Matías Duville, Jorge Miño and Luis Terán
Coordinator: Santiago Bengolea

Daniel Molina, guest curator of the Contemporary Space, selected Matías Duville, Jorge Miño and Luis Terán to develop site-specific projects for different spaces of Fundación Proa. In words of the curator, the artist 'support a kind of common field that could be defined ambiguously as subjective minimalism. This oxymoron denotes the poetic complexity of their works and their little or no submission to the canons".

With the support of Tenaris – Organización Techint

* Image: Alberto Giacometti. L’homme qui marche I, 1960. Bronce 180,5 x 23,9 x 97 cm. Colección de la Fundación Giacometti, Paris, inv. 1994-0186
© Succession Giacometti / SAVA, 2012

Press Department:
Andrés Herrera / Jesica Eberbach / Juan Pablo Correa 0054-11-4104-1044 / press@proa.org

Opening: Saturday, October 13, 2012 - 5 PM

Fundación PROA
Av. Pedro de Mendoza 1929 La Boca, Caminito [C1169AAD] Buenos Aires Argentina
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Mondays closed.

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