The City Square
Alberto Giacometti
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Original Title:Piazza -
Date:1948 - 1949; France -
Style:Expressionism -
Genre:sculpture -
Media:bronze
The City Square
Alberto Giacometti
Giacometti’s scene derives from modern urban experience. He states: “In the street people astound and interest me more than any sculpture or painting. Every second the people stream together and go apart, then they approach each other to get closer to one another. They unceasingly form and re-form living compositions in unbelievable complexity. . . . It’s the totality of this life that I want to reproduce in everything I do. . . .”¹
1. Quoted in Alberto Giacometti: A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat. (New York: Praeger in association with Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1974), p. 31.
