Herbert Matter, Alberto Giacometti Modelling, 1960-1966
Gelatin silver print, 28.9×35.4 cm

Collection of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, gift of Virginia and Herbert Lust, Greenwich, Connecticut, through the American Friends of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2004
? Herbert Matter

The Tel Aviv Museum of Art presents a retrospective of Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966), one of the most renowned and influential artists of the 20th century. The exhibition, titled "Beginning, Again," will be a landmark cultural event bringing together 130 works from the collections of Fondation Giacometti, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. The exhibition will span the four decades of Giacometti's career, from the early 1920s to the artist's death in 1966. It will feature a special selection from Giacometti's Surrealist period, as well as iconic plasters and bronzes, paintings, drawings, and prints, bringing the full scope of his practice into focus.

Alberto Giacometti, The Cage (First Version), 1949-50
Bronze, 90.1×36.3×34 cm

Collection of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, gift of Rivka Saker and Uzi Zucker, through the American Friends of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2020
? Succession Alberto Giacometti / ADAGP, Paris, 2023
Photo: Margarita Perlin, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Alberto Giacometti, Three Walking Men (Small Square), 1948
Bronze, 76×32.7×34.1 cm

Fondation Giacometti
? Succession Alberto Giacometti / ADAGP, Paris, 2023

Giacometti is best known for the body of work he created after World War II, primarily sculptures of universal, timeless figures: standing women, walking men, and expressive busts, conveying a distinct emotional quality. His lanky figures, alienated and consumed by anxiety, became icons of the postwar period, as an embodiment of the soul-searching and horror that typified it. The exhibition follows the development of Giacometti's work, his study of the human figure, and his repeated attempts to capture his experience of seeing, what he called "rendering my vision." It features a special selection from Giacometti's Surrealist period, as well as a number of iconic plasters and bronzes, paintings, drawings, and prints, bringing the full scope of his practice into focus, in addition to photographs and a movie documenting his studio in Paris.

Alberto Giacometti, Reclining Woman who Dreams, 1929
Bronze, 23.7×42.6×13.6 cm, Fondation Giacometti

Fondation Giacometti
? Succession Alberto Giacometti / ADAGP, Paris, 2023

Alberto Giacometti, Three Walking Men (Small Square), 1948
Bronze, 76×32.7×34.1 cm

Fondation Giacometti
? Succession Alberto Giacometti / ADAGP, Paris, 2023

Among the works exhibited will be Walking Woman (1932), Point to the Eye (1931–32), Bust of Silvio (1945), Three Walking Men (1948), The Cage (1950), an ensemble of Woman of Venice (1956), and significant painted portraits. The show will be accompanied by an extensive bi-lingual catalogue in Hebrew and English.

Giacometti's retrospective inaugurates the Eyal Ofer Pavilion, marking its reopening to the public following extensive renewal and upgrading, restoring its former status as one of the most iconic buildings in Tel Aviv.

Alberto Giacometti, The Couple, 1926
Bronze, 59.3×37.4×17.5 cm

Fondation Giacometti
? Succession Alberto Giacometti / ADAGP, Paris, 2023

Alberto Giacometti, Head of Diego (Mask), 1935-40
Bronze, 19.5×11×11.5 cm,

Fondation Giacometti
? Succession Alberto Giacometti / ADAGP, Paris, 2023

About the Exhibition

Curation: Hugo Daniel, Ronili Lustig Steinmetz

Assistant Curator: Hillary Reder, Nathalie Andrijasevic

Dates: 6/5/23-7/10/23

Location: The Eyal Ofer Pavilion, 6 Tarsat Blvd., Tel Aviv

Courtesy Tel Aviv Museum of Art.