Giacometti – Smith, Ordovas

Don’t miss the Ordovas gallery show on works by two masters of 20^th century sculpture: Alberto Giacometti and American Abstract Expressionist artist David Smith. The Ordovas Savile Row gallery presents a group of 1950s sculptures that examine how both artists, who each lived and worked in a kind of self-imposed isolation (Giacometti in Paris and Smith in New York), established themselves as pioneers of post-war modern sculpture.
Facts: Alberto Giacometti & sculptor David Smith
Both artists created a series of totemic metallic sculptures. Alberto Giacometti favoured a figurative image, working directly from a small group of sitters in a tiny studio in Paris. In contrast David Smith created a new visual language influenced by the American landscape tradition in an industrial shop in the remote town of Bolton Landing in upstate New York. Smith was even inspired by Giacometti’s earlier Surrealist works along with other first generation modernists like Picasso.
David Smith & Alberto Giacometti influences
Their work went on to influence a generation of artists. Smith paved the way for minimalist sculptors like Donald Judd and Richard Serra, while Giacometti, became a hero of the post-war existentialist avant-garde and influenced artists like Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud who continued to champion the figurative tradition.
If you are looking for sculpture London shows explore this Ordovas art exhibition of seminal 20^th century work.