Bøger af Alberto Giacometti

For the first time in recent history, a publication on Alberto Giacometti and his work is being released in Denmark. The book is published in connection with the exhibition "Alberto Giacometti – What Meets the Eye" and has been created through an exclusive collaboration between the Fondation Giacometti in Paris and SMK in Copenhagen.In the catalog, readers get up close to Giacometti's works and the research concept behind the exhibition. The catalog includes key, newly translated original texts by philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and Giacometti himself, along with four current articles by Danish and French researchers. Notably, it also features illustrations of the exhibition's works in a new, improved quality, presented in a way that supports the research points and the exhibition's concept.The focal point is Giacometti's break with the surrealist environment, of which he was a part until 1934-35, and the affinity seen between his late work and post-war phenomenologically inspired thinkers such as Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. In addition to presenting the thinking and experiences that underlie Giacometti's artistic method, the book also provides insight into post-war Paris, the places, and personalities that Giacometti surrounded himself with.

For første gang i nyere tid udkommer en publikation på dansk om Alberto Giacometti og hans arbejde. Bogen udgives i forbindelse med udstillingen Alberto Giacometti – Hvad øjet ser og er blevet til i et eksklusivt samarbejde mellem Fondation Giacometti i Paris og SMK i København. I kataloget kommer man helt tæt på Giacomettis værker og forskningsideen bag udstillingen. Kataloget rummer centrale, nyoversatte originaltekster af filosoffen Jean-Paul Sartre og Giacometti selv, fire aktuelle artikler af danske og franske forskere og ikke mindst illustrationer af udstillingens værker i ny, forbedret kvalitet, præsenteret på en måde, der underbygger forskningspointerne og udstillingens ide. Omdrejningspunktet er Giacomettis brud med det surrealistiske miljø, som han var en del af indtil 1934-35, og det slægtskab, som man gerne ser mellem hans sene værk og efterkrigstidens fænomenologisk inspirerede tænkere som Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre og Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Ud over at præsentere den tænkning og de erfaringer, der lå bag Giacomettis kunstneriske metode, giver bogen også et indblik i efterkrigstidens Paris, de steder og personligheder Giacometti omgav sig med.

"I'm no longer frightenedno more fright,before I used to trembleevening, nightdeath always haunted me,tormented me, nownothing, it's worse it'sterrifying, this calm"Including the following texts and extracts by Alberto Giacometti:"The dream, the Sphinx, and the death of T.""Enquiry on the encounter""Coal of grass""The brown curtain""Poems in 7 spaces""Yesterday, quicksands""Outside all control...""Splinter of sphere of the golden apple""Fear, death undulant crystalline...""Lulu, Lulu!¿...""Fragile fragile canopy of glass..."

"Is a copy anything but an attempt to extract the maximum from an encounter with a work of art? I'm convinced that the copy of a masterpiece is the best school there is for any artist who decides to make art."Including the following texts by Alberto Giacometti:"Notes on the copies"Extract from a conversation with Gotthard Jedlicka"At the Louvre with Giacometti"A conversation with Pierre Schneider"For 15 days now..."Extract from a conversation with André Parinaud"Is Greek art modern?"A conversation with Georges Charbonnier

"If I had some advice to give to a young painter, I would tell him to start by copying an apple."Including the following texts by Alberto Giacometti:"Fragments of a diary"In conversation with Gotthard Jedlicka"I certainly practise painting...""Grey, brown, black...""Braque has just died""Portrait of an artist" GiacomettiIn conversation with Alain Jouffroy"The painter's monologue"In conversation with Georges Charbonnier"I go against the flow"In conversation with Marie-Thérèse Maugis