Giacometti Chadwick: Facing Fear - Brossura

Keuning, Ralph

Brossura

ISBN 10: 9462621969 ISBN 13: 9789462621961

Casa editrice: Waanders & De Kunst, 2019

Riassunto

Facing Fear is the first time the sculptures of Lynn Chadwick and Alberto Giacometti have ever been explicitly compared and contrasted. In 1956, Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003) won the International Sculpture Prize at the Venice Biennale. The youngest artist ever to receive the prize, this British sculptor had begun his career only six years earlier. The runners-up included Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), who was then already a renowned artist and the overwhelming favourite to win. Yet the question of which one received the prize - Giacometti won shortly afterwards, in 1962 - is less significant than the fact that both of them were nominated for it. Each of the two represented, in his own way, the confusion and disillusionment that prevailed in Cold War Europe. For Giacometti, these tensions set off a deep existential crisis that led to a radical shift in his work. His string-like forms, now well known, literally pare down the human being to his essence. In that same period, Chadwick's constructivist figures were described as 'the geometry of fear', a desperate cry expressing the sense of menace that had the artist and his contemporaries in a stranglehold. Text in English and Dutch.

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De beelden van Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) en Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003) belichamen de toestand van ontluistering en existentiële angst in Europa tijdens de jaren van de Koude Oorlog, toen de dreiging van een nucleaire catastrofe onafwendbaar leek. Met het werk deze twee kunstenaars – de één een Zwitser, de ander een Engelsman – nam de Europese beeldhouwkunst definitief afscheid van de vooroorlogse romantiek en esthetiek, om met beide benen te landen in de rauwe realiteit. 'Facing Fear' plaatst hun beelden voor het eerst nadrukkelijk naast én tegenover elkaar, want ondanks de gedeelde omstandigheden verwerkten zij deze elk op hun eigen specifieke manier. Terwijl Giacometti de mens terugbracht tot zijn meest kernachtige verschijning, zonder enige opsmuk, creëerde Chadwick zijn krachtige oerbeelden van mens en dier.

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• Editore: Waanders & De Kunst
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• ISBN 10: 9462621969
• ISBN 13: 9789462621961
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192
• Redattore: Hoektra Feico