Following
in the wake of the Guggenheim’s masterful survey of Alberto Giacometti
(1901–1966), this exhibit focuses on a point in the artist’s career when he
became, essentially, a miniaturist, sculpting tiny portrait heads and figures
whose attenuated anatomies anticipated his haunting postwar work. The impetus
for these diminutive objects was Giacometti’s abiding interest in shifting
scales and their effect on viewers, but working small took center stage out of
necessity after 1941, when he spent the war forced to live and work in hotel
rooms after a trip to Geneva, Switzerland left him stranded outside
Nazi-occupied France and his Paris studio.
Venue name:
Luxembourg & Dayan
Address: 64
EAST 77TH STREET New York 10075
Cross
street: Between Madison and Park Aves
Opening
hours: Tue–Sat 10am–6pm
Transport:
Subway: 6 to 77th St
Event
website: http://www.luxembourgdayan.com
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