BACON / GIACOMETTI

Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon are two artists whose bodies of work influenced twentieth-century art and continue to resonate to this day. What turned them into icons in their field has to do with their individual lifestyles, as well as with the historical, social, and aesthetic upheavals in Europe after 1945, which each artist reflected upon in his ouevre. The Fondation Beyeler has ambi tiously undertaken a juxtaposition of the two artists in a large, upcoming exhibition in 2018