Alberto Giacometti, the original lithographs of Paris sans fin are on display in Cecina

There is time until Feb. 24 to visit, at the Hermann Geiger Cultural Foundation in Cecina, Livorno, Italy, the exhibition Paris sans fin. Original Lithographs by Alberto Giacometti. Opened last Dec. 1, the exhibition brings to Tuscany one hundred and fifty original lithographs by Alberto Giacometti (Borgonovo di Stampa, 1901 - Chur, 1966). These are images of Paris immortalized live with the immediacy of a lithographic pencil and collected in the artist’s book Paris sans fin, the marvelous work considered the artistic testament of the famous Swiss sculptor and painter, and at the same time the culmination of his graphic work. The Cecina exhibition is curated by Klaus Littmann and, accompanying the works on display, also features a selection of photographs by Ernst Scheidegger (Rorschach, 1923 - Zurich, 2016), who documented his artist friend’s work for more than two decades. The material on display comes from the collection of Carlos Gross, who owns one of the largest collections of Giacometti lithographs internationally. After the Italian stop, the exhibition will later travel to Austria and the United States.

Visitors will be able not only to take a close look at the individual lithographs that make up this marvelous graphic poem, but also to enjoy an overview of a unique work that makes palpable both Giacometti’s mastery and his love for Paris. Paris san fin is in fact a “journey” to the French capital, captured through a personal and subjective gaze that seeks to detach itself from the almost obsessive routine of the atelier, the familiar models, the very long posing sessions and the work incessantly modified, undone, begun again.

Paris san fin was born from the initiative of his friend Tériade (real name Stratis Eleftheriades, Mytilene, 1889-Paris, 1983), publisher of other artists’ books such as Jazz by Henri Matisse and Cirque by Fernand Léger. Giacometti, initially enthusiastic about the idea of this sort of reportage, encountered many difficulties in its realization: the complexity of the project, the fatigue of the outings to draw from life and ill health led him to long interruptions in a work that would be completed between 1958 and 1965. A text was supposed to accompany the images, but Giacometti failed to complete it and it was in fact included unfinished. The work was published posthumously, in 1969, in only 250 copies.

The exhibition is open daily from 4 to 8 p.m., with free admission.

Alberto Giacometti, the original lithographs of Paris sans fin are on display in Cecina

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