Alberto Giacometti. Das Maß der Welt
In the organizer's words:
"Alberto Giacometti. The Measure of the World" at the Kunsthalle Bremen is the first comprehensive monographic exhibition on the life and work of the Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti in Germany for ten years. It is also the first retrospective devoted specifically to Giacometti's intensive preoccupation with landscapes and shows how this is expressed in his figures.
Giacometti developed a veritable system of equivalences in which, for example, he conceived of a tree as a standing woman and a stone as a head. Even after he had lived in Paris for decades, his thoughts kept returning to the formative landscape of his youth in the Swiss mountains. The exhibition shows for the first time the extent to which Giacometti's fascination with analogies between man and nature arose from his engagement with German Romanticism.
The exhibition offers a comprehensive overview of Giacometti's oeuvre: from the early works and the surrealist period to the invention of his famous style in the post-war period. In a varied staging, the show will present outstanding masterpieces as well as previously unpublished works and unexpected juxtapositions. More than one hundred works from the holdings of the Fondation Giacometti in Paris will be on display - sculptures, paintings, drawings, prints and documentary material. This important collection on loan will be complemented by selected works from the collection of the Kunsthalle Bremen.
Jointly organized by the Kunsthalle Bremen and the Fondation Giacometti, Paris.
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