Cezanne & Giacometti
dal 19/2/2008 al 28/6/2008
Segnalato da
19/2/2008
Cezanne & Giacometti
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek
The exhibition consists a generous selection of masterpieces from collections and museums in most parts of the world: a whole 60 works by Cezanne and about twice as many by Giacometti: paintings, drawings and sculpture. The visitor thus has a rare opportunity to experience the breadth and impact of their artistic legacy, as well to add a brand new chapter to our perception of both artists. Curated by Poul Erik Tojner and Felix Baumann.
curated by Poul Erik Tojner and Felix Baumann
For the first time in the world an exhibition is being shown that confronts the works of the two artists Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) and Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) with each other. The exhibition consists of a generous selection of the works of both artists that brings out the retrospective view as well as showing specific points of contact between the works in the two artists’ formidable oeuvres. An international catalogue will be published for the exhibition with scholarly contributions that shed new light on both Cézanne and Giacometti, and especially on the relationship between them.
Giacometti, like many artists of the twentieth century, was very interested in Cézanne. But there are also parallels in their artistic development. As young artists both were obsessed with the erotic and all the violent desire that sexuality can involve. In his early years Giacometti associated himself with Surrealism, while Cézanne cultivated an absolutely personal idiom in his early work. Later both changed style completely and devoted themselves to years of searching in a succession of works that often look like variations on the same theme, thus reflecting that what they want to say perhaps cannot be said. In other words they meet at a point where doubt functions as a driving force for artistic creation.
The exhibition comprises about 60 works by Cézanne – paintings and drawings – and 110 works by Giacometti: paintings, drawings and sculpture. The exhibition is based on loans from the biggest, most prominent museums in the world – for example the National Gallery, London, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York, Kunsthaus Zürich and Kunstmuseum Basel – as well as many other museums and private collectors in Europe and the USA.
The exhibition has been organized by Poul Erik Tøjner, the director of Louisiana, and Dr. Felix Baumann, the former director of Kunsthaus Zürich and current president of the Alberto Giacometti Stiftung, Zürich.
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Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Gl. Strandvej 13 - Humlebaek
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Friday 11-22
Saturday - Sunday 11-18
Monday closed
Admission prices:
DKK 90
Students with international student card: DKK 80