L'atelier d'Alberto Giacometti
dal 16/10/2007 al 24/2/2008
Segnalato da
16/10/2007
L'atelier d'Alberto Giacometti
Centre Pompidou, Paris
For the first time, every aspect of the artist's work has presented in relation to his studio often inaccessible to the general public. This unusually extensive exhibition brings together more than 600 works, including nearly 200 sculptures and painted plasters, 60 paintings, 170 drawings, 190 photographs and many archive documents from the collection of the Alberto and Annette Giacometti Foundation.
Collection de la Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti
In collaboration with the Alberto and Annette Giacometti Foundation, Paris, the Centre
Pompidou is to present an unprecedented retrospective of the work of Alberto Giacometti
(1901–1966). For the first time, every aspect of the artist’s work will be presented in
relation to his studio, its place of creation, and exemplified in rarely seen works, often
inaccessible to the general public, among them painted plasters and sections of wall
from his three principal studios, in Paris, Stampa and Maloja (Switzerland).
This unusually extensive exhibition brings together more than 600 works, including
nearly 200 sculptures and painted plasters, 60 paintings, 170 drawings, 190 photographs
and many archive documents from the collection of the Alberto and Annette Giacometti
Foundation, as well as works from the collection of the Centre Pompidou/Musée
National d’Art Moderne and a number of others loaned by major museums and private
collections. These reveal the creative force of this great 20th-century artist, evidencing
his working method, so crucial to his art.
The exhibition L’atelier d’Alberto Giacometti. Collection de la Fondation Alberto et Annette
Giacometti has been made possible by the support of LVMH/MOËT HENNESSY.LOUIS VUITTON
COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRESSE
Organised both thematically and chronologically, the exhibition is structured around the studio space, which serves
as a central point of reference. A wide selection of paintings, sculptures, objets d’art, drawings, prints and writings
will offer a new look at the work of an artist represented here in all his aspects, as painter, sculptor, draughtsman
and decorative artist.
The exhibition will also show – in an entirely new way – how Giacometti anticipated many of the practices of
the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies avant-gardes: kinetics, the artist as shaman, art as process. His entire production
represents the inscription in time of actions that have the studio as their ritual site. Indeed, the title of
David Sylvester’s 1955 essay, ‘Documenting the Transient,’ could well have served as a subtitle for the exhibition.
Particular attention will be paid to the distribution and more especially the editioning of the sculpture, with a display
of plaster models and a comparison of patination between anthumous and posthumous casts, revealing hitherto
unknown aspects of the artist’s work.
The exhibition will be accompanied by an abundantly illustrated catalogue, with essays looking at the history of the
artist’s legendary Paris studio, his working methods and the exhibition of his work during his lifetime, as well as
a history of the Foundation’s collection.
Image: Nu debout sur socle cubique, 1953, Coll. Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti, Paris © Adagp, Paris, 2007
Opening 17 October 2007
Centre Pompidou
Place Georges Pompidou, Paris
Admission 10 euro