Giacometti with a gigolo.

Loved this man ever since I first saw his nightmarish figures in Switzerland. His sculpture succeeds in feeding my personal fascination with the human body and its relation to our interior. Giacometti is known for his twig-like spidery figures varying in different sizes. At the start of the exhibition we see his early interest in Egyptian art which becomes an evident source of inspiration in his later work; the figures are directly face-on yet are so thin one might have thought they were standing profile. Personally the figures seem starved and on the verge of decaying. The three figures (below) appear to present the stages of decay. Or perhaps Giacometti is just drawing attention to positive and negative spaces, playing with silhouette and form.

There is a series of paintings by Edvard Munch which shows a very awkward adolescent girl weeping in a room with very low ceilings. The girl becomes progressively bigger or the room become progressively smaller and it is very disturbing... anyways this series reminds me of what is going on with Giacometti. The figures are getting bigger taller and thinner as the exhibition rooms get smaller.

This miniature sculpture (below) is the size of half my little finger and yet it had the most impact on me. I can't remember the title but it was something along the lines of the "entire universe".. anyway, it's the isolation and the space around the figurine that is terrifying, rather than the sculpture itself.