Giovanni Giacometti: color in the light
Kunstmuseum Bern
30th October 2009 - 21 February 2010
The Kunstmuseum Bern, in collaboration with the Graubünden Art Museum Chur, a retrospective of the painted works by Giovanni Giacometti. Of his paintings exude a powerful coloristic effect. His particular artistic stature is mediated by a precise selection of about a hundred works of outstanding quality.
The exhibition is Giovanni Giacometti (1868-1933) lighting. The light - whether bright light, dusky twilight or dark of night is brightened by the moon or artificial light sources such as lanterns and lamps - is in the works of this artist is always a constitutive element. In some letters he has addressed the central importance of light for his painting: he intended "in the nature of colored light to penetrate," and he said that "the fight for the light" simply was "the driving force" of his entire work. Giacometti tried to play the changing light conditions and the intensification of light and color effect he achieved by the juxtaposition of brush strokes or dots of pure, often complementary colors. His greatest ambition was convinced that "the painter do everything by the light."
In bright light bathed
Giacometti, his paintings captured again in great moods of the mountains
and created a work of great coloristic effect. He fascinates his bright light in the mountains and landscape panoramas from submerged Bergell and Maloja, where he had his summer workshops. Besides landscapes but also portraits of his family, the witness of a happy family life in Bergell, and admire him close to him.
painter of international standing
Giovanni Giacometti made a significant contribution to the renewal Swiss painting in the 20th Century. After studying in Munich and Paris then went back to Giovanni Giacometti 1891 Stampa Bergell, where he was on his incredible style. A long-standing friendship he formed with Cuno Amiet, whom he met in Munich, and his admiration was his early mentor Giovanni Segantini, a landscape painter of the mountains. Undeservedly, the artist stood in the shadow of his brilliant sculptor's son, Alberto. The exhibition shows that Giovanni Giacometti is undoubtedly one of the leading Swiss artists from Impressionism, Post Impressionism, Fauvism, the main innovation of the Modern included and further developed.
series of the great Swiss painter
After Amiet (Cuno Amiet - Pont Aven to the bridge, 2000), anchor (Albert Anker and Paris, 2003), Felix Valloton (sunsets, 2004-2005) and Ferdinand Hodler (A Symbolist Vision 2008) continues to issue the series of great Swiss painter at the Kunstmuseum Bern.
www.kunstmuseumbern.ch Giovanni Giacometti (Wikipedia)
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