Volume 49, Number 1 · January 17, 2002
The Devil and Giacometti
By Sanford Schwartz
Alberto Giacometti
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Christian Klemm, in collaboration with Carolyn Lanchner, Tobia Bezzola, and Anne Umland
an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 11, 2001–January 8, 2002.
Museum of Modern Art/Kunsthaus Zürich/Abrams, 296 pp., $65.00
The chief reason for the Museum of Modern Art's Alberto Giacometti retrospective seems to be that 2001 is the centenary of the artist's birth. This is a blandly official cause for a show, and since the sculptor's characteristic stick- figure pieces—the men striding forth; the women stock still, their long arms stuck tight against their hips—have been a fixture of modern art since the Tate Gallery and the Modern put together their large shows in the middle Sixties, you might find yourself reluctant to go look. It surely doesn't help that the present show, undertaken with the Kunsthaus in Zurich and the Alberto Giacometti Foundation in that city, presents no radically new material or point of view on the artist.
Review, 4232 words
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