In keeping with the big monograph exhibitions of artists previously presented at Grimaldi Forum Monaco – Dalí, Bacon, Picasso, and Warhol – this exhibition, devoted to Alberto Giacometti, promises to be a major event in more than one respect this summer.
Thanks to the exceptional loan of 230 works granted by the Fondation Giacometti, the city-state’s Forum ispresenting one of the biggest retrospectives ever organised on this major artist of the 20th century, renewing the way the public looks at his oeuvre.
This exhibition aims at introducing not only the sculptor – with, among others, his iconic statues like Walking Man, which brought him international fame – but also the draughtsman and the painter in all his various phases, offering a complete view of his prolific artistic output.
To enhance this exhibition, remarkably coordinated by the curator Émilie Bouvard, Director of Collections and Scientific Programme at Fondation Giacometti, the scenographer William Chatelain intends to bring the spectatorscloser to the extraordinary works of the artist and give them the keys to understand a complex and tangible oeuvre over the 2,500 square metres of exhibition space and in 14 original sequences planned especially for this retrospective.
Through the particular and personal journey of the artist, this didactic retrospective reveals Alberto Giacometti in his search for the “Marvellous reality”.
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