Rui Chafes X Alberto Giacometti

The international exhibition Rui Chafes X Alberto Giacometti. Gris, Vide, Cris III, brings together the work of the Portuguese artist Rui Chafes with that of the Swiss modernist Alberto Giacometti. With his impressive installations, Chafes offers a new, tranquil and sensory experience of Giacometti’s world-famous sculptures. Gris, Vide, Cris III, the third exhibition in an international series, is being staged by Museum Beelden aan Zee in collaboration with the Fondation Giacometti in Paris and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon.

The Portuguese contemporary artist Rui Chafes (Lisbon, 1966) was born in the same year in which the Swiss modernist Alberto Giacometti (Borgonovo, 1901 – Chur, 1966) died. Although both artists are separated by time, place, and form language, they share an artistic pursuit: transcendence and making the invisible visible. In their own way the two artists explore how sculpture bears witness to both presence as well as absence, a tension between body, space, and mind. While Giacometti achieves this through a process of reduction, Chafes explores the boundaries of iron.

Cover image: Impression exhibition Rui Chafes X Alberto Giacometti. Gris, Vide, Cris III, organised by Museum Beelden aan Zee in collaboration with Fondation Giacometti, Paris and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation | photo: Studio Gerrit Schreurs