ALBERTO GIACOMETTI. WORKS, WRITINGS, INTERVIEWS

As this book explains Giacometti spent his life, exorcising this existential and formal void through a return to the human figure. T he question that dominated his work was how to restore in art the sense of the presence of the being in space. Giacometti sought tir elessly to establish his contingent volume, which became increasingly slender and threadlike, and to seize its finiteness in a reali ty, however banal it might be. He began to develop heads and nudes modeled in the void, in that experience of nothingness that oppos ed his q...[Read more]