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61. ALBERTO GIACOMETTI,
11 April - 7 June 1992
An exhibition of works by Alberto Giacometti (b. 1901,
d. 1966 Chur, Switzerland) was organized by the Sara Hildén Art
Museum and the Association for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki.
There were 133 works on display, including 70 sculptures,
27 paintings and 30 drawings. Nearly all the important works of the artist
were included, such as "The Spoon Woman" (1926-27), "The
Woman with Her Throat Cut" (1932), "Carriages" (1950) as
well as the thin and elongated woman figures, walking men, and busts from
the 1940's and 50's. The paintings covered all of Giacometti's important
themes and models. The exhibition displayed different stages of Giacometti's
development from his early Cubist period to his most recent works.
The Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris arranged
a comprehensive exhibition of Alberto Giacometti's works in the winter
of 1991-92. The Sara Hildén Art Museum and the Musée d'Art
Moderne de la Ville de Paris reached an agreement on practical
co-operation,
with the result that some of the works for the Tampere exhibition came
straight from Paris.
A comprehensive exhibition of photographs of Giacometti's
life, his surroundings and his Paris studio was also presented. Entitled
"The Photographer's View: Alberto Giacometti", the exhibition
included photographs by Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ernst
Scheidegger,
Robert Doisneau, Alexander Lieberman, Brassaï and René Burri.
The exhibition of photographs had been assembled by the Schweizerische
Stiftung für die Photographie, Zürich.
Visitors had the opportunity to see two videos which had
been filmed by Ernst Scheidegger: "Alberto Giacometti, 1955 - 1966"
(produced by Galerie Maeght and Studio Scheidegger) and "Bergell
- The Native Locality of the Giacometti Family" (produced by Ernst
Scheidegger).
Catalogue:
Alberto Giacometti
1992, 239 pages
Sara Hildén Art Museum Publication 51
ISBN 952-9652-06-2
ISSN 0357-3001
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25,745 visitors attended the exhibition.
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