Christoph Klimke liest Giacometti

What's it about?

BLACK HORSES GALLOP Christoph Klimke reads Giacometti Alberto Giacometti wrote about how he lived his art, hesitantly, reversingly, full of flashes of inspiration and missteps, bravely, then doubting, and always erotically. Life and art are adventures, support, springboards, intense and pleasurable. Giacometti smokes and swears constantly while working and writing, asks questions upon questions, exposes himself, devours, and takes us into the enormity. Christoph Klimke takes us on Giacometti's furious ride across a "yellow meadow of madness" and through his loneliness, which is mainly a respect zone for love. And all this with an incredible humor, which "his smile of a cannibal corresponded to" (Michel Leiris). We visit Giacometti's studio with Jean Genet, Sartre speaks up, but above all, the artist himself with his restless notes, poems, and letters about his work, his models, Paris, and the desired women, about beloved paintings, sculptures, Ko...

Where?

Werner Berg Museum Bleiburg/Pliberk
10. Oktober Platz 4

Organiser: Werner Berg Museum