(Paris) An Alberto Giacometti museum-school, bringing together the largest collection in the world of the artist’s works (1901-1966), will settle in 2026 under the Esplanade des Invalides in Paris, the Giacometti Foundation announced on Monday .
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Located in the former Invalides station and the basements of the esplanade, this new 6,000 m2 will have “a museum presenting permanently and in rotation a large part of the some 10,000 works by Giacometti collected by the foundation (plaster and bronze sculptures, paintings, drawings, decorative art objects) most of which are not currently not accessible to the public”, indicated Catherine Grenier, director of the foundation created in 2003 in Paris by the widow of the artist, Annette Giacometti.
It will also house “exhibitions of modern and contemporary art in connection with the spirit of Giacometti” and a “non-professional creation school aimed at everyone, children and adults, experienced or novices”, she added. .
The Giacometti Institute, located in the 14e district of the capital, will remain in place but “its activities will be redesigned”, according to Mme Attic.
It currently houses Giacometti’s studio, of around twenty m2which will be transferred to the future museum.
The building of the former Invalides station and its underground annexes, created for the Universal Exhibition of 1900, will be completely renovated as part of a program of the City of Paris.
The architect Dominique Perrault, among others, will imagine the transformation of this site.