Bacon / Giacometti - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3775744177 ISBN 13: 9783775744171

Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2018

Synopsis

Alberto Giacometti (1901?1966) and Francis Bacon (1909?1992) are two artists whose bodies of work influenced twentieth-century art and continue to resonate to this day. What turned them into icons in their field has to do with their individual lifestyles, as well as with the historical, social, and aesthetic upheavals in Europe after 1945, which each artist reflected upon in his ouevre. The Fondation Beyeler has ambitiously undertaken a juxtaposition of the two artists in a large, upcoming exhibition in 2018. In a fascinating way, the meeting of the two artists’ work here is like a dialogue about space and time, in which it is possible to recognize each man’s art in the work of the other. The show’s companion catalogue continues to intensify and carry on this conversation in words and pictures.

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Review:

"brings their differences into focus, and celebrates the sparks generated by the friction of the encounter.... In this meeting of contrasts - Giacometti's upright, stony figures; Bacon's prone, fleshly blobs - what impresses is how each artist has, on his own terms, managed to create an object that both moves and is still."--Samuel Reilly "Apollo "

"highlights similarities between the artists, including being obsessed with depicting the human head, as well as differences such as Giacometti's use of grey, which is in stark contrast to Bacon's lavish use of colour."--The Art Newspaper

A pairing of modernist giants.... Pity, horror, awe and supreme formal virtuosity: Bacon and Giacometti both had false start careers before World War II and emerged after it with a conviction, against the tide of abstraction, that only an art of Old Master gravitas, obsessively concerned with distortions and fragments of the human form, could uphold figuration after the Holocaust.--Jackie Wullschlager "Financial Times "

About this edition

• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 3775744177
• ISBN 13: 9783775744171
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 204
• Editor: Grenier Catherine, Daniel Hugo, Peppiatt Michael, Felber Sylvie, Küster Ulf, Fondation Beyeler Riehen/Basel