Gagosian Grosvenor Hill,London
Giacometti’s expressive sculpture captures the contemporary condition, but in this provocative pairing, and it’s Klein’s fiery alchemy that takes your breath awayI’ve seen enough of Alberto Giacometti’s art for a while. That is a shame,because there is a lot of it approximately – and more coming. The Swiss sculptor who gave visual form to Parisian existentialism after the second world war has a enormous exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich and an even bigger one planned by Tate contemporary in 2017. It is tough not to respect this anguished artist of the contemporary condition, but you can get sick of his dry funereal austerity. It’s tiring to attach on the required philosophical frown in front of yet another spindly homage to Etruscan tomb statuary.
This, or anyway,is what I felt seeing his overwrought bronzes and drawings alongside the joyously playful, mysteriously visionary work of Yves Klein in Gagosian’s provocative pairing of two stars of the Paris art scene of the 1950s and 60s. It is Klein who takes my breath away. What a mad genius he was. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com