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Written by the author of Henry Moore, Interviews with Francis Banco and Rene Magritte, this book is the fruit of a long collaboration as sitter, friend, critic and exhibition curator with Alberto Giacometti. It is a response to Giacometti's art, with observations on his work in progress, and reflections on his completed oeuvre, after his death in 1966.
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Additional essays by Isabelle Maeght, James Lord and Reinhold Hohl.
The exhibition brings together some 120 works and photographs on loan from international museums and private collectors in Duisburg. Each of the works is an almost indispensable component of the exhibition of the Woman With Chariot. The exhibition showcases over 30 sculptures, paintings and prints, more than 40 original photographs, documents and archival materials. The 153.5-centimeter-high Woman With Chariot was built around 1945 in the studio of the sculptor, who worked during the war in Geneva and Maloja. It is the only plaster sculpture by Giacometti in a German museum.
This publication and the accompnaying exhibition echo Jean Genet's famous 1957 essay, L'Atelier d'Alberto Giaocometti. Both explore the various facets of the now famous studio on rue Hippolyte Maidron - laboratory, ritual place and major component of the artist's work. This studio where Giacometti, one of the 20th century's major artists, lived from 1926 to 1965, is probaby placed at the very core of the building, the presentation and the disemination of his work and his own image. This book is illustrated by many previously unseen archives.
Laurie Wilson shows how Giacometti's secret beliefs & emotional scars are reflected in his sculpture, drawings & paintings.