Exhibition Diego Giacometti

The exhibition of Diego Giacometti (1902-1985) is designed as a large and comprehensive retrospective dedicated to an artist who skillfully moved between applied works and free art.
While Diego Giacometti has previously always been presented in relation to his famous brother Alberto ("Diego steps out of the shadow"; "The other Giacometti"), the exhibition claims to honor the work of this artist as an independent oeuvre. It is well known that Diego Giacometti's success story only began after Alberto's death. The exhibition makes it clear that his artistic beginnings were much earlier. For the first time, works by the artist can be seen that were previously largely unknown and laid the foundations for his later work.
The exhibition spans both buildings of the Bündner Kunstmuseum and takes into account the different perspectives of his work: in the Villa Planta, a former private house, the objects appear as furniture in the context of the Bündner art collection with works by his father Giovanni Giacometti and his brother Alberto Giacometti; in the extension building, on the other hand, the focus is on the work process and numerous models are on display. In addition, the exhibition provides a comprehensive insight into Diego Giacometti's wealth of forms and motifs, which form the basis of his artistic work.

The exhibition was created in close collaboration with the "Musée des arts décoratifs" in Paris. The artist Vaclav Pozarek (*1940), who has already made a name for himself on several occasions with innovative and specific forms of presentation, was commissioned to design the exhibition.


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