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Bacon, Freud, and the School of London Painters

October 9, 2018–January 13, 2019
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
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In the decades following World War II, Bacon, Freud, and their British contemporaries engaged with subjects that felt immediate and intensely personal. This exhibition retraces their artistic developments via works, including paintings and drawings, spanning seven decades. Despite the sheer diversity of approaches and techniques that embodied their practices, the members of this group were constantly renewing their individual appraisals of the artist’s personal position in the world, focusing on individuals, locations, and narratives close and dear to them. The exhibition was initially produced under the title Bacon, Freud, and the London Painters by ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark. Work by Michael Andrews, Francis Bacon, Glenn Brown, Alberto Giacometti, and Jenny Saville is included.

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Black Hole
Arte e matericità tra informe et invisibile

October 4, 2018–January 6, 2019
GAMeC—Galleria d’Arte Moderna et Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy
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Black Hole: Arte e matericità tra informe et invisibile is the first exhibition in an ambitious three-year research program dedicated to the theme of matter. Activating a dialogue with the history of scientific and technological discoveries, and investigating the development of aesthetics theories, Black Hole showcases the work of artists who have explored the material element’s most intrinsic significance, where the actual concept of matter shatters to open up a more profound idea of matter as an original element, as the primordial substance that constitutes everything. Work by Urs Fischer, Lucio Fontana, Alberto Giacometti, Anselm Kiefer, and Piero Manzoni is included.

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Rui Chafes et Alberto Giacometti
Gris, vide, cris

October 3–December 16, 2018
Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris
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This exhibition developed as an exploration of the common lexicon of artists, timelessness, dematerialization, and emptiness. Fifteen works by Alberto Giacometti are presented alongside works by Rui Chafes that were commissioned specifically for this project.

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Giacometti

June 8–September 12, 2018
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
www.guggenheim.org

This comprehensive exhibition will feature more than 175 sculptures, paintings, and drawings by Alberto Giacometti in the first major museum presentation of the artist’s work in the United States in fifteen years. The show will examine anew this preeminent modernist who may be best known for his distinctive figurative sculptures
that emerged after the trauma and anguish of World War II. His paintings and drawings reflect his incessant investigations of the human body in sculpture, as he strove to capture the essence of humanity.

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Bacon Giacometti

April 29–September 2, 2018
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel
www.fondationbeyeler.ch

Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon were friends and rivals, and this exhibition explores their relationship. Although their respective artistic oeuvres differ greatly at first glance and appear autonomous, the exhibition reveals commonalities and amazing parallels between them.

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In Tune with the World

April 11–August 27, 2018
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr

In Tune with the World aims to reflect on today’s questions about one’s place in the universe and the bonds that tie humans to their surrounding environment. The exhibition highlights the interconnections between humans, animals, plants, and even inanimate objects. Work by Alberto Giacometti, Yves Klein, and Takashi Murakami is included.

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Nude
Art from the Tate Collection

March 24–June 24, 2018
Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan
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Journeying through time, from the nineteenth century to the present, this exhibition brings together masterpieces by renowned artists including Francis Bacon, John Currin, Alberto Giacometti, Man Ray, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Cindy Sherman. More than one hundred artworks tell the story of the nude and trace artists’ captivation with the human form over the past two centuries. The exhibition has most recently traveled from the Seoul Olympic Museum of Art.

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Derain, Balthus, Giacometti
Friendship among Artists

February 1–May 6, 2018
Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid
www.fundacionmapfre.org

The exhibition, with more than one hundred works, traces the artistic friendship of these three major artists, who met in 1933 and whose lives and works would intersect over the ensuing decades. Beyond sharing personal affinities, the three artists played with rules of representation, style, and technique. This exhibition has traveled from the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris.

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NUDE
Masterpieces from the Tate

August 11–December 25, 2017
Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea
www.britishcouncil.kr

This traveling exhibition brings together masterpieces by renowned artists including Francis Bacon, John Currin, Alberto Giacometti, Man Ray, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Cindy Sherman. Beautiful, sensual, and at times provocative, more than one hundred artworks tell the story of the nude and trace artists’ captivation with the human form over the past two centuries.

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Carol Bove in
57th Biennale di Venezia

May 13–November 26, 2017
Giardini, Venice
www.labiennale.org

Swiss-born Alberto Giacometti created Femmes de Venise (Women of Venice) in 1956 for the 28th Biennale di Venezia, exhibiting them in the French Pavilion to make clear his refusal to be constrained by national borders. Aiming to explore Giacometti’s absence in the history of the Swiss Pavilion, curator Philipp Kaiser presents new works by Carol Bove and the artist duo Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler that dialogue with Giacometti’s work. Bove’s painted steel constructions—including Woman of Venice I, II, and III (all 2017)—engage directly with Giacometti’s late figurative sculpture, alluding to a substitution.

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Derain, Balthus, Giacometti
Une amitié artistique

June 2–October 29, 2017
Musée d’Art moderne, Paris
www.mam.paris.fr

The exhibition, with nearly two hundred works, traces the artistic friendship of these three major artists, who met in 1933 and whose lives and works would intersect over the ensuing decades. Beyond their personal affinities, the three artists played with rules of representation, style, and technique.

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Giacometti, L’oeuvre ultime

June 23–October 15, 2017
Galerie Lympia, Nice, France
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The Giacometti Foundation presents the first exhibition dedicated to works by Alberto Giacometti in Nice. Bringing together fifty major artworks from the artist’s final years (1960–65), this show allows one to measure the importance of this intense and relatively unknown period.

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Alberto Giacometti

May 10–September 10, 2017
Tate Modern, London
www.tate.org.uk

Through unparalleled access to the extraordinary collection and archive of the Fondation Giacometti, Paris, Tate Modern’s exhibition brings together more than 250 works. It includes rarely seen plasters and drawings that have never been exhibited before and showcases the full evolution of Giacometti’s career across five decades.

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Rodin
L’exposition du centenaire

March 22–July 31, 2017
Grand Palais, Paris
www.grandpalais.fr

This exhibition reveals Rodin’s creative universe, his relationship with his audience, and the way in which sculptors have appropriated his style. With over two hundred of Rodin’s works, this show also includes work by Georg Baselitz, Alberto Giacometti, Thomas Houseago, Pablo Picasso, and more.

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The Body Laid Bare
Masterpieces from the Tate

March 18–July 16, 2017
Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand
www.aucklandartgallery.com

Journeying through time, from the classical, biblical, and literary subjects of the nineteenth century to the body politics of contemporary art, this exhibition brings together masterpieces by renowned artists including Francis Bacon, John Currin, Alberto Giacometti, Man Ray, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Cindy Sherman. Beautiful, sensual, and at times provocative, more than one hundred artworks tell the story of the nude and trace artists’ captivation with the human form over the past two centuries. The exhibition travels to the Seoul Olympic Museum of Art in South Korea, opening August 11, 2017.

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À pied d’oeuvre(s)

March 31–July 9, 2017
Monnaie de Paris
www.monnaiedeparis.fr

À pied d’oeuvre(s) examines the history of sculpture through three crucial moments. In 1917, Marcel Duchamp placed a coatrack on the ground and named it Trébuchet (Trap); in 1939, Alberto Giacometti showed a sculpture of a body of an injured woman lying on the floor; in 1960, Yves Klein removed one of his paintings from a wall and covered the space in gesso. These three masterpieces, rarely seen together, initiate a floor-level tour of the Centre Pompidou’s collections and synthesize three key moments from the history of twentieth-century sculpture: in doing so, they embody the exhibition’s aim. Work by Man Ray, Richard Serra, Tatiana Trouvé, and Rachel Whiteread is included.

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The Beginning of Everything
Drawings from the Janie C. Lee, Louisa Stude Sarofim, and David Whitney Collections

February 24–June 18, 2017
The Menil Collection, Houston
www.menil.org

In anticipation of the October 2017 opening of the Menil Drawing Institute, the museum is exhibiting a selection of drawings spanning the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century. The show highlights promised gifts from the collections of Janie C. Lee and Louisa Stude Sarofim, as well as works from David Whitney’s 2005 bequest, which include those by Balthus, Georg Baselitz, Helen Frankenthaler, Alberto Giacometti, Anselm Kiefer, Brice Marden, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, Cy Twombly, and Rachel Whiteread.

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Picasso–Giacometti

February 23–May 21, 2017
Fire Station Garage Gallery, Qatar Museums, Doha
www.firestation.org.qa

More than two hundred works by Pablo Picasso and Alberto Giacometti have been brought together for this historic exhibition traveling from the Musée national Picasso in Paris to the Fire Station in Doha. The exhibition has been curated by Catherine Grenier, director of the Fondation Giacometti, in collaboration with Serena Bucalo-Mussely and Virginie Perdrisot, and with support from the Qatar Museums.