All the art of the past rises up before me - the art of all ages and all civilizations - everything becomes simultaneous as if space had replaced time.Alberto Giacometti is more than a major twentieth-century artist - he is also one of the century's most intriguing characters. This biography, the result of new research, takes us into the private life of an artist haunted by his oeuvre, driven relentlessly by an uncompromising and demanding nature.Following a childhood spent in his father's studio in Switzerland, and then his student days in Paris studying under the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, the young artist split from his early mentors, looking instead to cubism, then surrealism. He earned near-immediate recognition forhis work and the admiring friendship of André Breton, yet Giacometti soon turned his back on the surrealist objects that had brought him fame, opting instead to break away on his own - a choice that led him to the margins of mainstream movements. A friend to leading artists and intellectuals, he made his own way in the solitude of his legendary studio in Montparnasse. Strongly attracted to human representation and influenced by archaic and non-Western art, he eschewed naturalist representation in favor of a synoptic and sometimes tortured vision of the figure - one filled with mysterious power.Catherine Grenier recounts the exceptional story of Alberto Giacometti, his life, career, and work, in a biography that is every bit as thrilling as a novel.
The groundbreaking sculptor's most comprehensive monograph to date.
Jean-Michel Othoniel is an artist who creates sculptures that explore themes of fragility, transformation, and ephemerality. Using the repetition of such modular elements as bricks or beads, his work deploys various strategies that hint at loss and despair - cracks in his objects' perfect surfaces, negative spaces and, early in his career, transient materials such as sulfur. The most authoritative study of the artist's work to date, it includes intimate gallery pieces as well as monumental public commissions around the world.
" Les cheveux de poupée sont une référence directe à mes souvenirs d'enfance.
Je me souviens de ces terribles peurs que j'avais lorsque j'étais seule à la maison et que j'attendais pendant de longues heures, le retour de ma mère. A cette époque, je m'inventais des rituels pour calmer mes angoisses. Par exemple, ces rituels consistaient à défaire des coutures de tissus et à utiliser les fils que je récupérais pour attacher certaines parties de mon corps ou d'autres objets. Peu après mes cheveux ont remplacé les fils.
Se souvenir relève d'un processus imaginatif. Bergson disait que parler du passé, c'est rêver. Le temps est mon " matériau " principal, la toile dans laquelle je réinvente mes souvenirs. Je joue avec la dislocation du temps comme les enfants construisent des mondes parallèles. Enfant nous ne pensons pas de façon logique et notre conception du temps n'apparaît certainement pas comme étant une trajectoire linéaire et objective.
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