Catherine Grenier

Alberto Giacometti n’est pas seulement un artiste majeur du XXᵉ siècle : il est aussi l’une de ses personnalités les plus originales. Fruit de recherches nouvelles, cet ouvrage nous introduit dans l’

Alberto Giacometti is more than a major twentieth-century artist he is also one of the centurys most intriguing characters. This biography, the result of new research, takes us into the private life of an artist haunted by his oeuvre, driven relentlessly by an uncompromising and demanding nature.Following a childhood spent in his fathers studio in Switzerland, and then his student days in Paris studying under the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, the young artist split from his early mentors, looking instead to cubism, then surrealism. He earned near-immediate recognition forhis work and the admiring friendship of Andre Breton, yet Giacometti soon turned his back on the surrealist objects that had brought him fame, opting instead to break away on his own a choice that led him to the margins of mainstream movements. A friend to leading artists and intellectuals, he made his own way in the solitude of his legendary studio in Montparnasse. Strongly attracted to human representation and influenced by archaic and non-Western art, he eschewed naturalist representation in favor of a synoptic and sometimes tortured vision of the figure one filled with mysterious power.Catherine Grenier recounts the exceptional story of Alberto Giacometti, his life, career, and work, in a biography that is every bit as thrilling as a novel.

« Tout l’art du passé, de toutes les époques, de toutes les civilisations, surgit devant moi, tout est simultané comme si l’espace prenait la place du temps. » Alberto Giacometti n’est pas seulement

L’art et la vie de Gérard Garouste sont peuplés de fantômes et de hantises. L’artiste livre ici, sans aucun fard, tous les tourments intimes qui ont façonné son parcours : la violence et l’antisémiti

L’art et la vie de Gérard Garouste sont peuplés de fantômes et de hantises. L’artiste livre ici, sans aucun fard, tous les tourments intimes qui ont façonné son parcours : la violence et l’antisémiti

L'inventivit des formes et la puissance potique de l'oeuvre d'Annette Messager la placent parmi les artistes les plus importants du XXe sicle. Cette monographie rassemble ses travaux depuis le dbut des annes 1970 aujourd'hui. L'auteure, Catherine Grenier, enrichit son texte d'un nouveau chapitre qui comprend notamment ses dernires grandes expositions, "Casino" la Biennale de Venise en 2005, ou encore "Les Messagers" au Centre Pompidou Paris en 2007. Catherine Grenier propose une analyse chronologique de cette oeuvre singulire tout en analysant les thmes qui sont au coeur de son travail, de l'autobiographie fictive de ses dbuts ses grandes installations "pntrables" de ces dernires annes telle "Casino" Venise en 2005. Ce brillant essai est illustr par plus de 200 reproductions, il fait de cet ouvrage l'unique monographie de rfrence sur Annette Messager

The groundbreaking sculptor's most comprehensive monograph to dateJean-Michel Othoniel is an artist who creates sculptures that explore themes of fragility, transformation, and ephemerality. Using the repetition of such modular elements as bricks or beads, his work deploys various strategies that hint at loss and despair - cracks in his objects' perfect surfaces, negative spaces and, early in his career, transient materials such as sulfur. The most authoritative study of the artist's work to date, it includes intimate gallery pieces as well as monumental public commissions around the world.

Catálogo completo, ilustrado y comentado, de la obra pictórica de Seurat.