EPIC VOCABULARY

A preeminent artist of the twentieth century, Alberto Giacometti (1901– 1966) investigated the human figure for more than forty years. This comprehensive exhibition, a collaboration with the Fondation Giacometti in Paris, examines anew the artist's practice and his unmistakable aesthetic vocabulary. Featuring important works in bronze and in oil, as well as plaster sculptures and drawings never before seen in this country, the exhibition aims to provide a deeper understanding of this artist, whose intensive focus on the human condition continues to provoke and inspire new generations. as if caught in a time warp. If these two animals were a metaphor of man, Giacometti was giving the world a language that said that art must live beyond its very act of creation. exploratory, touch-and-go process. It is as if Giacometti wanted to reveal the process of making the figures by tracking their changing and varied states. From the clay cast to the final figure, these "weightless and visionary" figures, the standing women and walking men of the late 1940s which had won Giacometti sudden international fame, had mainly been the conception of the sculptor's imagination. To glimpse them at the Guggenheim is like witnessing an epiphany.

Art historians state that around 1950, when it seemed to Giacometti that he could no longer mine this vein