Giacometti at Pera Museum in Istanbul

In its 10th anniversary, the Suna and ?nan K?raç Foundation Pera Museum is presenting an exhibition of selected works by world-renowned Alberto Giacometti The Suna and ?nan K?raç Foundation Pera Museum is hosting the first major exhibition of Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti in Turkey, featuring a retrospective approach of the artist's decades of work.

Organized in collaboration with the Giacometti Foundation in Paris, the exhibition explores Giacometti's prolific life, most of which was spent in his studio in Montparnasse, through the works of his early period as well his late work, including one unfinished piece.

The Giacometti Foundation is a French public interest institution, created by government decree in 2003. The foundation focuses on promoting, disseminating, preserving and protecting the work of Giacometti (1901-1966). The foundation holds the world's largest Giacometti collection. 

Curated by the Giacometti Foundation's director, Catherine Grenier, the exhibition offers a chronological and thematic itinerary covering the two definitive periods of the artist's life - before and after World War II - and touches upon his friendships with the leading artists and intellectuals of his period in Paris.

Devoted to Giacometti's early works, the first part of the exhibition demonstrates the influence of Giovanni Giacometti, the father of the artist and a Swiss Post-Impressionist painter himself, on Giacometti's output during these years and his role in his son's development.

The exhibition also illustrates Giacometti's relations with Post-Cubist artists and the Surrealist movement between 1922 and 1935, one of the important sculptures series he created during his first years in Paris, and...