19 Jan 2021
Modigliani and Giacometti in cosmopolitan Paris
Paris
The École des modernités
At the Institut Giacometti
Modigliani et le Paris Cosmopolite
What is yet to learn about Amedeo Modigliani? Through the prism of this painter long confined to the figure of the "cursed artist", this lecture invites you to delve deep into the artistic world of bohemian Paris and to consider his work under a new light. The painter captures a shifting society: Women's new found identity (the "Garçonne"), to the upholding of youth and cosmopolitism. The making of his style owes a lot to the parisian setting without ever being restricted by it: From cubism, under the wing of salesman Paul Guillaume up to a "cubo-metaphysical".
Lecture in French on Zoom, Tuesday 19th January.
Thierry Dufrêne
Thierry Dufrêne is an art historian and exhibition curator, lecturer at Paris NAnterre University. HE is also specialist on the work of Alberto Giacomettiest, and on 20th century sculpture. Amongst the exhibitions under his curatorship, we owe him "Une image peut en cacher une autre" (Paris, Grand Palais, 2009) and the "Salvador Retrospective" (Paris Centre Pompidou, 2012). He has published on Alberto Giacometti: Giacometti. Les dimensions de la réalité (Skira, 1994), Giacometti/Genet : masques et portrait moderne (Paris, Vilo, 2006), et Le journal de Giacometti, Paris, Hazan, 2007, sur Dali : Dali. Double image, double vie (Paris, Hazan, 2012), and has recently led a project on Amedeo Modigliani : Modigliani (Paris, Citadelles et Mazenod, 2020).
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