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Giacometti's active phase falls in the era between surrealism, cubism and existentialism, which makes it very difficult to assign his sculptures to any one movement. Trois hommes qui marchent is one of his more "mature" works.
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Alberto Giacometti
All lovers of Alberto Giacometti's sculptures should ensure that they keep the 28th of September 2002 free, because this is the day they could
conceivably purchase one of the artist's works at Christie's Auction House in Paris. But who was Giacometti? "A brilliant sculptor and painter whose works are as abrasive as they are original",
say some. "A modest melancholic with a sense of humour who was fascinated by self-immolation", say others who knew him better. Alberto Giacometti
was born into a family of artists in 1901 in the Italian part of Switzerland. For many years he lived in Paris; he died at the pinnacle of his success in 1966 in Chur.
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Le chien, a bronze created in 1951, sees the artist - an eternal seeker - at his most expressive and fearful. Giacometti eloquently poured his traumatic war-time experiences into this poignant dog.
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The elongated, fragile sculpture La femme debout II (277 x 60 x 31 cm) from 1960 was sold in the 1980s by Christie's for US $3,630,000. It expresses Giacometti's new way of viewing "existentialist truth": no more illusion and vision; instead the artist portrays...
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... the perception of reality, the sudden appearance of a figure, through extreme thinness.
The sculptures appear remarkably down-to-earth on their large bases and
vivaciously present. Upright and at the same time so fragile. This same contrast is to be
found in Femmes de venise. Giacometti created an image of humanity that
unites dignity with frailty.
Text: Corinna Keller
Photos:
Le Collège de Maisonneuve
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