Giacometti-Veilhan : Traveling through sculpture's space-time
Symposiums and lectures | Friday, November 25th 2011
As part of its inaugural exhibition, « L’Etoffe du Temps » (The Stuff of Time), the Bernard Magrez Cultural Institute organizes weekly meetings at the Château Labottière, an 18th century townhouse in the centre of Bordeaux.
This friday's art meeting (25th November 2011) will be a conversation between Xavier Veilhan and Véronique Wiesinger, director of the Fondation Alberto and Annette Giacometti, on the theme of time, but also on the experience of exceeding the limits of sculpture by two artists.
The conversation, introduced by Ashok Adicéam, Director of the Bernard Magrez Cultural Institute, will stem from two works currently displayed in the exhibition:
- Alberto Giacometti, Four Women on a Base, 1950
- Xavier Veilhan, Le gisant, Yuri Gagarin, 2009
Taking as its starting point a Picasso masterpiece, the exhibition « L’Etoffe du Temps » (The Stuff of Time) gathers works of modern and contemporary art, and is presented as a conversation between artists and artworks, conceptual and figurative, on the theme of Time in art.
Six sculptures, five paintings, five installations, two photographs and two videos form the material of the « L’Etoffe du Temps » inside the Château Labottière until January 15th 2012.
