Giacometti and the Etruscans

The Pinacothèque de Paris (France) presents, a new reading of the work of sculptor Alberto Giacometti. The exhibition, entitled Giacometti and The Etruscans, shows Giacometti's interest for the primitive figure, which can be found very early in the artist's work.

Etruscan art caused a considerable upheaval for Giacometti. He discovered this brilliant civilization in the archeological department of the Louvre during the exhibition on the Etruscan art and civilization in 1955 in Paris.

The artist travelled to Tuscany to further his research on this ancient civilization. In Volterra he discovered the emblematic sculptured figure of the Etruscan world, L'Ombre du soir (The Evening's shadow). None of the artist's most famous figures, from the series of Femme de Venise (Woman of Venise) to that of the Homme qui marche (Man Walking) can be conceived without reference to this powerful and rangy etruscan figure.

The Pinacothèque de Paris shows this confrontation for the first time in Paris. L'Ombre du soir shall be accompanied by more than one hundred and fifty etruscan objects, exhibited alongside a thirty sculptures by Giacometti.

Date: until January 8, 2012.
Place: Pinacothèque de Paris. 28, place de la Madeleine. 75008 Paris, France.
Opening hours: from Monday to Sunday from10.30am to 6.30pm.

See some of Giacometti's works in the following slideshow: