It's a pretty special family reunion.
The Giacometti go by five to the Maeght Foundation, which brings together for the first time in a museum, in five very distinct rooms in the image of their temperaments, the five males of this extraordinary artistic lineage springing from the Swiss village of Stampa in the canton. from Graubünden (they all rest in its cemetery): Giovanni, the father, and Augusto, his cousin, both painters, and the three sons of Giovanni, Alberto, the eldest, Diego, the younger, and Bruno, the younger.
Alberto and Diego are at the heart of the history and collections of the Maeght Foundation.
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Everyone is represented here in their own world, from the Swiss modernities embodied by Giovanni the Patriarch to the pioneering forays of Augusto, from the decorative arts to the most dreamlike of Diego to the little-known architectural models of Bruno.
Alberto closes the course with an accumulation of masterpieces which suddenly eclipse them all (alignment of
Standing Woman
, painted plasters between 1946 and 1956).
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