Giacometti
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Related Press:
Gallery chronicle, by James Panero, New Criterion, Mar 2013
Giacometti in Bushwick: Art, reality and the myth of life become one, by Sharon Butler, Two Coats of Paint, Feb 23
Giacometti Take on Bushwick, Allison Galgiani, Bushwick Daily, Feb 14
Editor's Pick, by Paul D'Agostino, L Magazine, Feb 14
Seven Bushwick/Ridgewood Shows, by Hrag Vartanian, Hyperallergic, Feb 12
Video: Giacometti at Norte Maar on the James Kalm Report, Feb 3
Editor's Pick Top 5 Events for a Bushwick Polar bear, by Katarina Hybenova, Bushwick Daily, Jan 25
Giacometti Joins Brooklyn Artists in Apartment-Gallery, by Meredith Hoffman, DNAinfo.com, Jan 16
Giacometti and a selection of contemporary drawings
featuring work by: Anthony Browne, Maria Calandra, Kevin Curran, Ryan Michael Ford, Libby Hartle, Francesco Longenecker, Eric Mavko, Thomas Micchelli, Mathew Miller, Andrew Szobody and Alberto Giacometti
Jan 26-Feb 24, 2013
Opening reception: Sat, Jan 26, 6-9pm
Norte Maar, 83 Wyckoff Avenue, #1B, Brooklyn
Norte Maar is pleased to present Giacometti and a selection of contemporary drawings, January 26-February 24, 2013. The exhibition features a double sided drawing by the great modern master Alberto Giacometti. The work, on loan from a private collection, will be the source of discussion in a show that juxtaposes it with the work of ten contemporary artists. Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) holds a special place in the history of 20th Century art.
Any encounter with a work by Giacometti whether it is a drawing or painting or sculpture, provides an opportunity to access the strength and sincerity embodying the best art that contributed to the rise of Modernism. With an oeuvre stretching five decades, it is in Giacometti’s most mature work, say from 1947 to 1965, that his most successful and distinctive ability to obscure the boundaries of abstraction and representation are revealed. Giacometti struggled to uncover a personal kind of modernism that measured abstraction against the known, and the representational against subconscious mystery. His very process alludes to a sort of mythology of humanity, which Giacometti expressed so poetically in a short text of 1957, Ma réalité: Art, reality and the myth of life became one.It is this hunt for artistic clarity that is the purpose behind this special exhibition, which juxtaposes the work of a selection of contemporary artists with a drawing by Alberto Giacometti.
Reality for me has never been a pretext to make art objects, but art a necessary means to render to myself a better account of what I see […] All that I will be able to make will be only a pale image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or, perhaps, the success will be equal to my failure. I do not know whether I work in order to make something, or in order to know why I cannot make what I would like to make. — Alberto Giacometti, Paris, May 17, 1959
