What Meets the Eye: Giacometti's artistic genius showcased at major exhibition in Denmark

euronews (in English)

The expansive showcase offers an in-depth exploration of the renowned 20th century Swiss artist's work, spanning sculpture, painting, graphics, and drawing.

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00:03 entrepeneurial is probably for saying, but everyone knows what a head looks like.

00:33 And actually, that's the big conundrum for Giacometti from that time and onward.

00:39 He doesn't know what a head looks like, and he doesn't know what a figure looks like.

00:42 And he tries to get to an essence of what you see when you see something.

00:48 And that is also, of course, in the question of the figure, what constitutes a figure visually when you see it?

00:55 How do you recognize a figure as a figure, a human being as a human being?

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01:19 I think that reduced form, this sort of slender and very reduced form that you see in his figures

01:26 has to do with the fact that he's trying to get to an essence.

01:29 And that, in a very tangible sense, the very reduced figures, the slim forms that you see in his work

01:36 have to do with the fact that they're essential.

01:38 They are the human figure reduced to its essential form.

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