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\n\tThe Temple of Dendur, an ancient Egyptian structure that counts among the most beloved attractions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will this summer host an exhibition of sculptures by the Swiss modernist Alberto Giacometti\u2014a rarity, since the Temple of Dendur does not often act as a space for shows of any kind.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe exhibition, simply titled \u201cGiacometti in the Temple of Dendur,\u201d is a small one, with just 17 of the artist\u2019s sculptures. Fourteen of them belong to the Fondation Giacometti, while the rest come from the Met\u2019s collection.<\/p>\n
\n\tBut it is being touted as a major occasion by the Met, whose wing for modern art is currently closed while it undergoes a renovation and expansion. The exhibition also suggests the Met is trying to break down divisions between curatorial departments, linking the distant past with the modern era\u2014something the museum already did with \u201cFlight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876\u2013Now,\u201d a 2024 show that featured ancient artifacts alongside modern and contemporary artworks inspired by them.<\/p>\n
\n\tStarting on June 12, Giacometti\u2019s Walking Woman (I)<\/em>, from 1932, will appear in the Temple of Dendur\u2019s offering hall. It\u2019s one of his highly prized sculptures of slender figures that stand tall as they prepare to plod on. Also in the show is Women of Venice<\/em>\u00a0(1956), which will be exhibited on the temple\u2019s terrace.<\/p>\n \n\tThe Temple of Dendur, a structure that dates to around 10 BCE, went on view at the Met in 1978, more than a decade after Giacometti\u2019s death. But the show asserts that Giacometti was inspired by many Egyptian art, which he saw firsthand in Florence and Rome early in his career.<\/p>\n \n\tThe exhibition is a co-production between the Met\u2019s Egyptian and modern and contemporary art departments, with Aude Semat and Stephanie D\u2019Alessandro acting as their respective representatives. Emilie Bouvard, a curator for the Fondation Giacometti, also worked on the show.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cGiacometti\u00a0continuously returned to the question of how to infuse his work with the experience of being human,\u201d D\u2019Alessandro said in a statement. \u201cHis sustained engagement with ancient Egyptian art offered not only formal clarity but a model for how the figure could embody both stillness and intensity. Seen within and around the Temple of Dendur, his sculptures sharpen our understanding of his lifelong effort to distill the human presence to its most essential form.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/met-museum-temple-of-dendur-giacometti-show-1234781310\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DP165670.jpg?w=1024″] The Temple of Dendur, an ancient Egyptian structure that counts among the most beloved attractions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will this summer host an exhibition of sculptures by the Swiss modernist Alberto Giacometti\u2014a rarity, since the Temple of Dendur does not often act as a space for shows of any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1883995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1883995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1883995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1883995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1883995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}