It is the artist first exhibition on the African Continent which has been described as exceptional. Also do it could be opened in grand style. This Monday April 18th, Princess Lalla Salma was expected not only by an honor guard of soldiers but also by several ministers and foreign ambassadors, to inaugurate the retrospective of Alberto Giacometti, held from April 20th to September 4th, 2016 at Mohammed VI museum of modern and contemporary art (MMVI) in Rabat. Among these officials, the French Minister for European Affairs, Harlem Désir.
The wife of King Mohammed VI of Morocco, who was dressed in a beige trousers together, enjoyed a guided tour of this retrospective by Catherine Grenier and Serena Bucalo-Mussely, respectively director and research fellow at the Giacometti Foundation, both curators.
Organized in collaboration between Alberto and Annette Giacometti Foundation and the Mohammed VI Museum of Contemporary Art of Rabat, this presents a hundred works of the famous Swiss sculptor born in 1901 and died in 1966. Through 46 sculptures, 19 paintings, 30 drawings, and objects of decorative art and photographs, it focuses on the influence of African art and Egyptian antiquities on the art of the author of "the walking man" .
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