"For me, art is just a way of understanding how I see the outside world."

Alberto Giacometti

"Because I’ve made images that intellect could never make."

Francis Bacon

This ambitious exhibition will be the first to study in depth the parallel, creative careers of two of the 20th century’s most influential artists: Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon.

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With works by Brice Marden from the Daros Collection
Nature and abstraction have long been a couple in art. This year’s second collection presentation shows how differently artists explore this twosome. 

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The monumental installation GaiaMotherTree by the Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto (b. 1964) is a spectacular public art project presented by the Fondation Beyeler in Zurich Main station.

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Balthus (1908–2001) is viewed as one of the last great masters in twentieth-century art. The planned retrospective at the Fondation Beyeler will bring together a wide range of important paintings from every phase of the oeuvre of this legendary artist, reflecting the multiple ambiguities in the staging of his remarkable images.

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