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ALBERTO GIACOMETTI
Alberto Giacometti was born in 1901, Borgonovo (now Stampa), Switzerland and attended École des Beaux- Arts and École des Arts et Mètiers, Geneva (1919), and Academie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris (1922). He died in 1966, Chur, Switzerland. His work is represented in public collections worldwide including Kunsthaus Zürich; Tate Gallery, London; MUMOK, Vienna; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions including in the Pushkin Museum, Moscow (2008); “The Studio of Alberto Giacometti: Collection of the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti,” Centre Pompidou, Paris (2007-2008); Kunsthal Rotterdam (2008); and Fondation Beyeler, Basel (2009).
Throughout his life, Giacometti remained fascinated by the existential challenges and ineffable mysteries of the human figure and psyche, which he explored in the
portraits or likenesses that he produced of family, friends, and colleagues. His mother, for example, became a central focus in a series of works that include the plaster bust Tête de la Mere (1927-1930) as well as drawings and lithographs of her reading and sitting. Giacometti’s portrayals convey the strength of his emotional attachment to her as well as his conceptual and formal attention to the charged space that a single person occupies, which he called “the void.” Long after his mother’s death, he continued to work in the solitude of the Stampa studio as a respite from his busy life in Paris; Buste d’Homme (1965) was modeled after his brother Diego as well as other male models in an attempt to create the “anonymous portrait,” and Buste d’Annette X (1965), one of the many portraits that he made of his wife, were both produced there and shown in his New York retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in 1965.
“RELATIVITY OF ALL THINGS, and the mountains in Stampa? They are here and they will remain, like the forest.” -- Alberto Giacometti
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