In the late 1920s, Alberto Giacometti was living on rue Hippolyte-Maindron, in a 247-square-foot apartment with an earthen floor and a small iron stove. It was around then that he met André Breton and the Surrealist artists, whom he worked with from 1930 to 1935. Suspended Ball (1930–31)—a plaster sculpture of a sphere with a cleft and a crescent moon just under it—marks Giacometti’s entrance into the group. A peach and a banana? A woman and a man? Forms and space? A nocturne? Soon came the Second World War and the thin bronze sculptures of haunted human figures that brought Giacometti world renown. He died in 1966, at age 64. This exhibition examines the artistic evolution that took Giacometti from the 1920s to the 60s. The show marks the reopening of the extensively renovated Eyal Ofer Pavilion. —Elena Clavarino