Giacometti's interest in Egyptian civilization manifested itself for the first time in October 1917, when he was a boarder at the evangelical high school in Schiers (Switzerland), notes Thierry Pautot, one of the curators of the exhibition which confronts the master. from modern art to the treasures of the Louvre at the Giacometti Institute.
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In May 1920, the young Alberto accompanied his father, the Post-Impressionist painter Giovanni Giacometti, to the Venice Biennale, an initiatory journey where he also discovered Tintoretto and Giotto.
He returned to Italy in November 1920 and came to a standstill, not in front of Botticelli, but in front of Egyptian art at the National Archaeological Museum in Florence.
“These are sculptures.
They cut off what was necessary all over the face, there is not even a hole to enter a hand, yet we have the impression of movement and form in an extraordinary way, ”
he wrote in December. 1920 to his parents.
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This mad love for ancient Egypt, he will deepen it in Rome where he is staying
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