Opening Diego Giacometti

The exhibition by Diego Giacometti (1902-1985) is designed as a large and comprehensive retrospective dedicated to an artist who skilfully moved between applied works and free art.
If Diego Giacometti has always been presented in relation to his famous brother Alberto ("Diego steps out of the shadows"; "The Other Giacometti"), the exhibition claims to pay tribute to the artist's work as an independent work. What is known is that Diego Giacometti's success story only begins after Alberto's death. The exhibition makes it clear that his artistic beginnings lie much earlier. For the first time, works by the artist can be shown that were previously largely unknown and laid the basis for later work.
The exhibition extends over both buildings of the Bündner Kunstmuseum and takes into account the different perspectives of this work in its layout: In the Villa Planta, a former private house, the objects appear as furniture in the context of the Graubünden art collection with works by his father Giovanni Giacometti and his brother Alberto Giacometti; in the extension building, on the other hand, the focus is on the work process and numerous models are on display. In addition, the exhibition provides a comprehensive insight into Diego Giacometti's wealth of forms and motifs, which forms the basis of his artistic work.

The exhibition was created in close collaboration with the "Musée des arts décoratifs" in Paris. The artist Vaclav Pozarek (*1940), who has already appeared several times with innovative and specific forms of presentation, has been won over for the design of the exhibition.