Walking Man II

Mediums: bronze.
Location: The Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago (the USA).

Giacometti said of his subtle ghostly sculptures, “I represented them (people) as narrow, elongated figures and found them amazing; it was impossible to imagine them in their natural form. In the distance, they are nothing more than ghosts. If a person comes close, he’s already different … I can’t see him for real anymore”. Writer F. Pong formulated the phenomenon of exhausted, skinny and naked images in his article on Alberto’s statues, “He depicted a man worried about a man suffering terror from a man”. He is alone in a suffering and half-destroyed world, searching for himself starting from scratch. In 2010, one of the most recognizable sculptures of “Walking Man I” went to auction at Sotheby’s for $ 104.3 million.