Alberto Giacometti
dal 27/10/2005 al 3/12/2005
Segnalato da
27/10/2005
Alberto Giacometti
Pace Wildenstein, New York
The Women, a retrospective. The show features approximately 50 works of art, including 35 sculptures and 15 paintings, which explore the artist's long-standing fascination with the female subject, from his mother, sister, and wife to various models including Flora, Isabel, Rita, Paola Carola, and Caroline.
The Women
This historical exhibition explores Alberto Giacometti’s fascination with the female subject and features 50 works of art including the nine Women of Venice bronzes, shown together for the first time since 1958
New York, October 20, 2005—PaceWildenstein is pleased to announce the opening of The Women of Giacometti, an exhibition of the largest group of Alberto Giacometti’s work since the 2001 traveling retrospective organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The exhibition, on view from October 28 through December 3, 2005, will travel to the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, where it will be on view from January 14 to April 9, 2006.
The Women of Giacometti features approximately 50 works of art, including 35 sculptures and 15 paintings, which explore the artist’s long-standing fascination with the female subject, from his mother, sister, and wife to various models including Flora, Isabel, Rita, Paola Caròla, and Caroline. The exhibition ranges from Giacometti’s early Surrealist and Cubist influenced works in the 1920s and 1930s to all nine cast bronze Women of Venice (Femmes des Venise) from 1956, on view together for the first time in the United States since the landmark 1958 exhibition at the Pierre Matisse Gallery.
A full color catalogue with an essay by Véronique Wiesinger, director of the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti, and contributions by Arne Glimcher; Paola Caròla, a Giacometti model; Steve Nash, Director of the Nasher Sculpture Center; and Louise Tolliver Deutschman, who knew the late artist in Paris and who originally proposed this concept several years ago, accompanies the exhibition.
Alberto Giacometti (b. 1901 Switzerland–d. 1966 Switzerland) was captivated with the human figure, and women in particular, from an early age. By twelve, he had completed the first portrait drawings of his mother, Annetta, who also had a history of modeling for his father’s paintings. A few years later Giacometti’s focus shifted to include his sister, Ottilia. Both women continued to heavily influence his subject matter throughout their lifetimes and well into Giacometti’s mature style.
Giacometti continued to paint from life after moving to Paris in 1922. His affair with the American Flora Mayo was documented in a 1927 portrait and is the only known painting to have been completed. Numerous other acquaintances and models sat for Giacometti: a sculpture of Isabel Nicholas became famously known as “The Egyptian Womanâ€; Denise Maisonneuve shared a common interest in Surrealism at the same time as he; and the model Rita Gueyfier marked a significant change in the way that Giacometti addressed material, scale and style.
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