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Alberto Giacometti. Man Pointing. 1947. Frail yet erect, a man gestures with his left arm and points with his right. We have no idea what he points to, or why. Anonymous and alone, he is also almost a skeleton. For the Existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, in fact, Giacometti's sculpture was "always halfway between nothingness and being."
In the Surrealist periodical Minotaure, Giacometti described the process that brought into being this fragile, air-filled sculpture. “This object formed little by little toward the end of summer 1932,” Giacometti recalled; “it gradually became clearer to me, the various parts taking their exact form and their particular place in the ensemble.
With nearly 10,000 works and objects in storage today, the Giacometti Foundation has the richest collection of Alberto Giacometti's works in the world: a collection that it is responsible for preserving, restoring and enriching. The collection also includes all of Giacometti's Parisian studio, with its famous painted walls and furniture, as ...
16 de sept. de 2023 · Intitulée Objet désagréable, cette sculpture est d’abord conçue en plâtre, puis traduite en bois, et enfin coulée en bronze en 1961. Cette dernière technique sera d’ailleurs celle qu’Alberto Giacometti privilégiera tout au long de sa carrière. La particularité de cette œuvre réside dans sa parfaite retranscription de la période surréaliste de l’artiste.
23 de ene. de 2024 · Alberto Giacometti created a varied body of sculptures, paintings, and drawings, but he is best known for his sculptures of tall, thin, and rigid women and men often mounted on large bases. In the destructive wake of World War II, these figures--skeletal, seemingly anonymous and isolated--were embraced as powerful metaphors of the human condition.
Bibliografía. Jacques Dupin, Alberto Giacometti, Maeght, París 1962. Reinhold Hohl, Alberto Giacometti, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart 1971. Christian Klemm, Die Sammlung der Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft, Zürich 1990. Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti.Biographie d'une oeuvre, Flammarion, París 1991. Suzanne Pagé, Alberto Giacometti.. Sculptures - peintures - dessins ...
Throughout his life, Alberto Giacometti (Swiss, born Borgonovo, 1901–1966) was devoted to portraying the human figure in various styles and media. In 1922 he moved to Paris to study with Antoine Bourdelle, Auguste Rodin’s protégé. From 1925 to 1929, Giacometti created Cubistic works and abstract linear constructions drawing on the ...
