The American artist Barbara Chase-Riboud always knew she was going to be a sculptor. She enrolled in classes at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1946, at age seven, and by 16 she’d already sold her first work. As a young adult, in the early 1960s, Chase-Riboud moved to Paris, where she met Alberto Giacometti. The pair immediately bonded over their monumentally scaled works, their mutual passion for Ancient Egyptian symbolism and for bronze. Though at first Chase-Riboud’s style was similar to Giacometti’s, her vision evolved, moving into abstraction. In this exhibition the artist has selected female figures by Giacometti and placed them alongside her own sculptures, creating a conversation between artistic friends. —Elena Clavarino
The Arts Intel Report
The Encounter: Barbara Chase-Riboud/Alberto Giacometti
Barbara Chase-Riboud with her sculptures, as well as Alberto Giacometti’s.
When
May 5 – Oct 9, 2023
Where
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Photo: © Succession Alberto Giacometti/ADAGP Paris 2023/© Barbara Chase-Riboud
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American Museum of Natural History