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Audio Described Tour of Encounters: Giacometti x Mona Hatoum

with Harry Baxter

,Level 2
Mona Hatoum's sculpture Inside Out. It's a dark grey sphere made of bronze, with what resembles intestines covering the surface.

An Audio Described tour of the exhibition, for blind and partially sighted visitors, led Harry Baxter, who will describe key works on display.

Mona Hatoum presents a mix of pre-existing and new artworks alongside her own selection of Alberto Giacometti’s sculptures, opening up connections and dialogues across generations. Integrating historic works by Giacometti within her own installations, Hatoum responds to Giacometti’s work, with a focus on the motif of the cage, themes of domestic and hostile environments, and how these spaces affect the viewer of the artworks.

Hatoum’s work often looks at issues of displacement, marginalisation, exclusion, and systems of social and political control. Alberto Giacometti is one of the most significant European sculptors of the 20th century, known for his distinctive, elongated sculptures which experiment with the human form.

Tagged with: Art & design Encounters: Giacometti

Ticket prices

Standard

Level 2

Location
Level 2
Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London
EC2Y 8DS

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