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Alberto Giacometti. Sculpture.
Painting. Drawing
5 December, 2008, within the frames of the traditional “Days of the Hermitage”
an exhibition of the works by Alberto Giacometti was opened in the Twelve-Column
Hall. This is the first comprehensive display of the works of this artist
at the Hermitage. The exhibition features about 80 works: 26 sculptures,
7 paintings and 27 graphical works, as well as photographs of Giacometti
by Ernst Scheidegger. The exhibit items are contributed by the Swiss museum
Kunsthaus in Zurich, Alberto Giacometti’s Foundation being a constituent
part of the museum where the larger part of the artist’s heritage is presented,
as well as by the Beyeler Foundation from Basel.
Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) is one of the legendary artists of the XX century.
His works are easily recognisable; his name is well-known
throughout the globe. He embodied his worldview in his sculptural compositions
without loud and scandalous declarations. The narrow vertical lines of his almost
immaterial figures characterising his “mature style” draw together
and capture any kind of space, from museum interior to city squares.
The author of Giacometti’s biography Jacques Dupin wrote: “His sculptures
are paintings placed in a three-dimensional space. They have neither the depth
of the dimensions nor the flatness of the surface. They avoid everything
that is massive or weighty. They need be comprehended head-on; they do not allow
going in circles. The pedestals of the figures are emphasised
with the sole purpose of disentangling and displaying the strength of their splash,
their lightness and dimensional fragility.
The supervisors of the exhibition are Elena Karcheva, senior research
associate, and Maria Shlikevich, junior research associate of the Department
of West European Art of the State Hermitage.
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At the opening of the exhibition
At the exhibition
Catalogue
of the exhibition
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