The first museum on Alberto Giacometti opens in Paris: it is the Giacometti Institute

Today, June 26, 2018, the Giacometti Institute, the first museum dedicated to Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), opens in Paris.
The museum is housed inside the studio of designer Paul Follot, a historic Art Deco building located in the Montparnasse district, where the artist spent most of his life, restored and redecorated for the occasion by architect Pierre-Antoine Gatier from a design by architect Pascal Grasso.

Among the museum’s 350-square-meter spaces are more than 300 sculptures and more than 90 paintings, an archive and a collection of 5,000 drawings, lithographs and notebooks, many of which are on public display for the first time. There is even a reconstruction of the artist’s Studio, preserved in its entirety by his wife Annette Arm, with plaster and clay works, some of them previously unpublished, and his wall paintings.

The institute will also periodically offer a program of exhibitions exploring various aspects of Giacometti’s work. The Giacometti Foundation manages the museum under the direction of Catherine Grenier, head of the foundation since 2014.

For all information you can visit www.fondation-giacometti.fr

Pictured: Jean Marquis, Alberto Giacometti in his studio, 1965 (Giacometti Foundation Collection. Copyright Giacometti Succession and Jean Marquis)

The first museum on Alberto Giacometti opens in Paris: it is the Giacometti Institute

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