Goldin returns and is already from this to that: in Verona with Giacometti from Chagall to Kandinsky

It lasted little more than a year for Marco Goldin’s “pause for reflection,” the well-known entrepreneur-curator who, in the summer of 2018, had announced that he would discontinue the exhibition activity of his company, Linea d’Ombra. But Goldin was quick to reconsider, and as early as last February he announced a series of projects for the three-year period 2020-2022. The first of these opened a few days ago at the Palazzo della Gran Guardia in Verona and, needless to say, it is still a “from this to that” exhibition: it is entitled The Time of Giacometti. From Chagall to Kandinsky and it runs from November 16, 2019 to April 5, 2020. It is organized by the City of Verona and Linea d’Ombra in collaboration with the Marguerite and Aimé Maeght Foundation and with sponsorship from the Baccini Group.

It is, the introductions say, a monograph on Alberto Giacometti, with about 100 works: about seventy are by the Ticino artist, the others are by artists working in Paris between the two wars (Kandinsky, Braque, Chagall, Miró and others). It is Goldin who often provides insight: “Giacometti was one of my very first passions in the field of art, shortly after my early twenties. I looked for him in books, exhibitions and museums in Europe. I immensely loved at first his drawings, several of which I in fact chose to bring to the Gran Guardia. Then his paintings so syncopated, especially the figures and still lifes, which were also in Verona, and of course the celebrated sculptures. I am happy to be able to pay homage to Giacometti in Italy with this vast exhibition, with works that span his entire career, from his youthful time in Switzerland to his inaugural sculptures around the age of fifteen to his surrealist trials and those, now part of the collective imagination, of his maturity.”

The exhibition then seeks to evoke the activities of Aimé and Marguerite Maeght, who had an important gallery in Cannes, founded before World War II: the experience was then replicated in 1945 in Paris, where the Maeghts, two years later, organized an exhibition on the Surrealists, in collaboration with Marcel Duchamp and André Breton, which was a huge success. In contrast, the inauguration of the Maeght Foundation, based in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, was in 1964. The Maeght Gallery was very closely associated with Giacometti. Will it be another exhibition with six-figure numbers for the volcanic Goldin?

Pictured: Wassily Kandinsky, Noeud rouge (1936; oil on canvas, 89 x 116 cm; Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght). © Claude Germain - Archives Fondation Maeght (France)

Goldin returns and is already from this to that: in Verona with Giacometti from Chagall to Kandinsky

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