Venue: Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum
Address: UPPER EAST SIDE | NEW
YORK | USA
Duration: JUNE 08,
2018-SEPTEMBER 16, 2018
This
comprehensive exhibition features more than 175 sculptures, paintings, and
drawings by the Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966), in the first major
museum presentation of the artist’s work in the United States in fifteen years.
In 1955, more than 60 years ago, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum organized the
first-ever museum presentation of Giacometti’s work in its former temporary
quarters on New York’s Fifth Avenue and brought key works into its collection.
A posthumous retrospective followed in the Frank Lloyd Wright–designed rotunda
in 1974. The upcoming exhibition, co-organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Foundation and The Fondation Alberto and Annette Giacometti, examines anew this
preeminent modernist who may be best known for his distinctive figurative
sculptures that emerged after the trauma and anguish of World War II, including
a series of elongated standing women, striding men, and expressive busts. Yet
Giacometti’s rich career—spent largely working and living in France—spans
several decades and various mediums, and his early production reveals his
engagement with Cubism and Surrealism as well as African, Oceanic, and Cycladic
art. Giacometti’s paintings and drawings, moreover, reflect his incessant
investigations of the human body in sculpture, as he strove to capture the
essence of humanity. A number of pocket-sized figures and heads begun
immediately before the war years, for example, explore spatial concerns such as
perspective and distance that became paramount to his work. Giacometti’s studio
practice will likewise be a particular focus of the exhibition, examined
through the inclusion of rarely exhibited plaster sculptures, in addition to
ephemera and historical photographs documenting his relationship with the
Guggenheim and with New York.
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