alberto giacometti’s world
April 21st, 2009“Much modern art, like a Giacometti sculpture, portrays man in alienation, loneliness, despair.” - Dr. Francis A. Schaeffer (a theologian who had deep interest in the arts)
Giacometti was haunted by a desire to understand what it meant to be alive. Faced with another (person), the mystery of this alien being – how it filled up space, how it battled with the hostile elements of its existence – seemed to Giacometti infinitely mysterious and marvelous. It was above all the head that perpetually challenged him, and more specifically the gaze – the look that another person exchanges with us, which Giacometti saw as both unfolding the mystery of that personality and yet perpetually concealing it.” – Sister Wendy
