On one sunny Friday evening I encouraged my Kot and we went to Tate Modern. I gave him a promise of a super cool dog sculpture.
All excited we enter the quite crowded exhibition of Giacometti works.

He is the most famous because of his sculptures. The walking man is still one of the most expensive sculpture ever sold.
The collection of his works presented in Tate Modern is simply astonishing. The exhibition is constructed in a way that you can simply see how Giacometti developed his style, from where he took inspiration from and how he become Giacometti everyone knows.
His long figures are beautifully disturbing. His two dimensional portraits are interestingly confusing. And his whole life’s effort to make a head is amazing.
First he had a vision how this resemblance should look like, after some years when each attempt to make a human head become a failure, he continued to work just to understand why he fails. Isn’t it amazing? What a devotion, dedication and humility. Once he said: I would like to do trees, nudes. But it’s no use for me to do nudes if I can’t handle the head –  That is a spirit!
Now we can watch this amazing vast of those failures: big heads, small, flat, surreal, cubic…

We left exhibition filled with so many different, for some contrast emotions, thinking and chatting about what we just saw, when suddenly we realised, that we have missed the dog. I bet you also already forgot about the dog. I don’t know, if we missed it, or if the dog was not there, but if you go for Giacometti exhibition and you will find a dog, let me know. We miss the dog.

Exhibition
Until 10 September 2017

Quick sketch of one of Giacometti works.