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Tribune News Network
Doha
QATAR Museums under the patronage of its Chairperson HE Sheikha al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani and in collaboration with the Mus`e national Picasso and the Fondation Giacometti, will present the first exhibition dedicated to the work of two of the most important artists of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966).
The exhibition, which is the first in the Middle East to showcase these two legendary artists' works, will be held at the Fire Station from February 23 to May 21, 2017.
This major exhibition, curated by Catherine Grenier, director of the Foundation Giacometti, with Associate Curators, Serena Bucalo-Mussely and Virginie Perdrisot, brings together more than 120 works by the two artists drawn from the collections of the Mus`e national Picasso and the Fondation Giacometti in Paris, as well as exceptional loans from French and other international collections, covering paintings, sculptures, sketches, photographs and interviews with the artists.
The exhibition reflects two years of research undertaken by the Fondation Giacometti and the Mus`e national Picasso, which reveals for the first time the previously unknown relationship between these two artists, who, despite an age gap of 20 years, shared many moments, both personal and professional.
The exhibition is organised in six sections, evoking different aspects of each artist's production, including the development of their work as young artists through to their modernist creations, showing the correspondences between their works, the influence of the surrealist movement, and the return to realism during the post-war period.
The exhibition includes key works by each artist, such as: Self Portrait (1901), Woman Throwing a Stone (1931) and The She Goat (1950) by Picasso and Flower in Danger (1932), Tall Woman (1960), and Walking Man (1960) by Giacometti, presented alongside rare and fragile casts, some newly discovered drawings and photographic archives as well as some replicas of Giacometti's works for the visually impaired visitors.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of lectures and an extensive education programme, as well as a self-guided handbook for the visitors.
A richly illustrated catalogue published as co-edition with Flammarion will accompany the exhibition, featuring new essays by art historians and the curators of the exhibition.
