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Alberto Giacometti

Spuren einer Freundschaft

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Marking our fiftieth anniversary: Ernst Scheidegger's classic hommage to Alberto Giacometti in a completely revised new edition, including more than sixty previously unpublished color images


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By Ernst Scheidegger
2013
Hardback
248 pages, 63 color and 186 b/w illustrations
26 x 27 cm
ISBN 978-3-85881-349-7

To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess, Alberto Giacometti: Traces of a Friendship is being published in a completely revised and expanded edition, which includes more than sixty previously unpublished photographs and an intimate new chapter.

Alberto Giacometti (1901–66) is inarguably one of the greatest sculptors of the twentieth century. Immensely gifted and prolific, he gave physical expression to his twin obsessions of the human form and the alienation of modern life. Despite his canonical position in the history of art and the reams of scholarship produced about him, Giacometti remains to many the elusive master artist, distant and remote on the Olympus of creative endeavor.

Ernst Scheidegger, a friend of the sculptor, knew a very different Giacometti. Scheidegger accompanied him to his studio, ate and drank with him, and relaxed with him in his family home. Alberto Giacometti: Traces of a Friendship documents his friendship with Giacometti, through photographs that Scheidegger took over the course of two decades. Scheidegger welcomes readers into Giacometti’s studio and house in Maloja, Switzerland, allowing them rare access to the most closely held aspects of the artist’s life. From the artist sketching in his studio or having a cup of coffee to his works in progress and art in installation to even his sleeping cats, Scheidegger captures the essence of the artist’s working life in images that are artful in their own right.

Echo

«Ernst Scheideggers Bildband ist mehr als ein Porträt. Die einfühlsamen Fotos gleichen einer Lebenserzählung, zeigen die Werke, berichten von Sitzungen mit den Modellen des Künstlers, die ihm oft Monate, sogar Jahre sassen. Kluge, unpathetische kurze Texte ergänzen die Bilder und ordnen sie ein. So wird auch klar, welch wichtige Rolle Giacometti im reichen Geistesleben dieses Nachkriegsparis spielte.» Wilhelm Warning, Bayern2, kulturWelt

«Die intensive Passion des als Magier Bezeichneten Alberto Giacometti wird in den Serien des 1923 in Zürich geborenen Magnum-Fotografen spür- und begreifbar.» Gregor Auenhammer, Der Standard

«Selbst in den vermeintlich nutzlos herumstehenden Gegenständen offenbart sich eine grosse Künstlerseele. Der Fotograf Ernst Scheidegger hat sie kongenial auf Film gebannt.» Hans-Michael Koetzle, Photo International

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