Alberto Giacometti

In the fall of 2020 Moderna Museet will present Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) in a major retrospective exhibition. Giacometti forged a singular path within European Modernism, restlessly seeking a new language for sculpture as a “double of reality”. Throughout his life, Giacometti was in conversation with some of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth century. By highlighting three writers – Georges Bataille, Jean Genet, and Samuel Beckett, with whom the artist sustained lasting friendships – the exhibition examines how these dialogues may be traced in Giacometti’s oeuvre. Presenting some 100 sculptures and paintings, the exhibition trails the evolution of Giacometti’s work from post-cubism through surrealism to post-war realism, with a special emphasis on his surrealist period. The exhibition is organized in close collaboration with the Fondation Giacometti, Paris.