To kick off the RUHR.2010 Cultural Capital Year, Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum – Center for International Sculpture, Duisburg will present a unique exhibition on the work of the sculptor Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966). With the support of the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti in Paris as Lehmbruck Museum’s academic and organizational partner the exhibition will bring some 120 works and photographs together in Duisburg, as loans from international museums and private collectors. All of the central loans of Giacometti’s works are indispensable components of the exhibition, which focuses on the pivotal “Woman with chariot”, thus extensively highlighting the sculptor’s figurative reorientation for the first time. The exhibition showcases about thirty sculptures, just as many paintings and prints, more than forty original photographs as well as documents and archival material. mehr...