Swiss sculptor and painter (1901-1966), Paris-based. The attenuated figure, eroded to a thread and still standing.
Provenance - where he pointed
Pointed at by Namjoon.
Namjoon photographed at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Humlebæk, Denmark), standing beside Giacometti’s bronze Walking Man (L’Homme qui marche), the gallery’s glass wall and the lake behind him. Documented Sep 11, 2019.
Referenced via @choi_bts2 archive
Why it matters - the door
the sculptures feel so fragile being so thin, but the material is opposite - made in bronze.
Grows into
Encountered at Alberto Giacometti: Toward the Ultimate Figure (Seattle Art Museum, 2022):
- Walking Man I - the L’Homme qui marche form RM stood beside at Louisiana, met on my own.
- The Mountain Road · Mountain Landscape · Mountain Landscape at Coltura - the early alpine works, Giacometti before the figures.
Related seeds
- Giorgio Morandi - the other European who spent a life reducing, the still life vs. the standing figure.