Un arbre comme une femme, une pierre comme une tête
Romain PERRIN
Résumé
Le paysage constitue davantage qu'un simple motif, c'est un véritable espace pour penser son rapport à la représentation qui influence son travail sur la figure humaine. À travers une sélection de peintures, d'aquarelles de jeunesse inédites, de dessins et de sculptures emblématiques, cet ouvrage invite à relire l'œuvre de Giacometti à l'aune d'une sensibilité qui lui fait voir : un arbre comme une femmes et une pierre comme une tête.
Though Alberto Giacometti is well-known for his work on the human figure, the landscape holds an important place in his oeuvre. It appears notably during his youth, spent in the steep-sided valley of the Grisons, and in the 1950s, when he often returned each year on holiday. Giacometti's landscapes are mainly composed of the mountains, forests and lakes of his native region, that he often travelled across, and where he found the suitable conditions to revitalise his art.
The landscape constitutes more than just a theme, it is truly a space to reflect on his relationship to representation that influenced his work on the human figure. With a selection of paintings, early watercolours not previously exhibited, drawings, and symbolic sculptures, this book invites the visitor to read Giacometti's work in the light of a sensitivity that makes him see a tree as a woman, and a stone as a head.
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