© Succession Giacometti (Fondation Giacometti, Paris et ADAGP, Paris)
The Max Ernst Museum in Brühl dedicates a major exhibition to Alberto Giacometti. Organised in collaboration with the Fondation Giacometti, the exhibition offers a unique perspective on Giacometti’s work, explored through the lens of Surrealism and for the first time, highlights the artist’s friendship and creative ties with Max Ernst.
On the occasion of Surrealism’s centennial, the exhibition presents more than 70 artworks from Giacometti, testifying to the artist’s interest in the unconscious, aggressive and sexual impulses, and the ambiguity of signs. The exhibition looks at the ways in which a surrealist “spirit” endures in Giacometti’s production after his break with the movement in 1935 and his later works of the post-war years. It also explores moments of friendship and creative affinity between Giacometti and Max Ernst, who met in 1929 in Paris, worked in neighbouring studios in the 1930s, and remained friends thereafter.
Curators : Laura Braverman (Fondation Giacometti) et Friederike Voßkamp (Max Ernst Museum Brühl)
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