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Bacon – Giacometti: Exclusive Editions

On the occasion of «Bacon – Giacometti» exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler (April 29 – September 2, 2018), we present exclusive limited and certified Art Editions by the two artists: six by Alberto Giacometti and thirteen Q-editions by Francis Bacon, produced by the UK art publisher HENI and only available in limited numbers. Even in this small selection, we can recognize what the some 100 works in the exhibition make clearly visible, namely the pronounced individuality of the two artists, and at the same time their many commonalities. Thus both shared an obsessive interest in the portrait as an expression of human individuality, in the fragmented and deformed body, in the relationship between figuration and abstraction, and in two and three-dimensional representation in space, whereby they integrated cage-like structures into their works as a means of isolating figures within their surroundings. “Study for Head of Lucian Freud” by Bacon and “Grey Figure” by Giacometti are characteristic examples, moreover, of the way in which both artists, each in his own fashion, carries the abstraction of the human body to the extreme.