ALBERTO
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“It is Giacometti’s work that makes our universe even more unbearable to me, so much does it seem that this artist knew how to set aside what obstructed his vision in order to discover what will remain of man once appearances have been stripped away. But perhaps Giacometti too needed this inhuman condition imposed upon us, so that his nostalgia might become so great that it would give him the strength to succeed in his quest.” “I would never manage to put into a portrait all the force that exists in a head. The mere fact of living requires such willpower and such energy…” Jean Genet, Complete Works – The Studio of Alberto Giacometti, 1979, p.41 and p.64 Photograph: Irving Penn, Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1950 Original text in French, translated by AI