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Here, he reimagines the ephemeral human skull in a fixed, crystalline form, replacing the curvature of the head with flat planes and sharp facets to evoke the fleeting nature of life. The artist’s interest in psychologically disruptive imagery tied his work to the movement known as Surrealism.
steep planes, this approximately life-size, skull-like head testifies to the artist’s ongoing preoccupation with the inextricable relationships between life and death, and transient matter and fixed crystalline form.
Head Skull. Date 1934. Medium Plaster traces of pencil and blue ballpoint pen. Dimensions 7,24 x 7,83 x 8,77 in. Collection Fondation Giacometti, Paris. Inscription.
To make Cubist Head, Giacometti gouged sharp angles and parallel lines into a copperplate, creating in two dimensions a fractured and faceted face similar to that of his sculpture of the same title, issued in marble and in bronze in 1934.
2021 Picasso-Giacometti Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (Netherlands), Museum Voorlinden, from October 16th 2021 to February 13th 2022. 2023 Alberto Giacometti - Le Nez, Paris, Institut Giacometti, from October 7th 2023 to January 14th 2024. Bibliography.
Head - Skull, Alberto Giacometti (Switzerland, 1901-1966), Switzerland, 1934, cast later, Sculpture, Bronze, cast number 5/6.
Monumental Head. Alberto Giacometti ( 1960 ) Period Twentieth-Century. Materials Bronze, cast number 3/6. Object Number 0779. Dimensions 37 1/2 x 11 x 10 in.; 95.25 x 27.94 x 25.4 cm. Credit Line Acquired 1962; © 2022 Alberto Giacometti Estate/Licensed by VAGA and ARS, New York, NY.
