Where to, Parker. Issue 5 | Summer 2017

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There are few sculptural styles as instantly
recognisable as Alberto Giacometti’s stick-men.
Even passing admirers of the Swiss sculptor’s work
will feel right at home (if a little overweight) at the
Tate Modern’s new retrospective.
Working in the years after World War II,
Giacometti tried through his work to make sense
of the human cruelty displayed during that period.
As Frances Morris, curator and director of Tate
Modern, explains: “Many artists found it very difficult
to depict mankind after the atrocities of Auschwitz,
after the atomic bomb, after man’s inhumanity to
man. This depiction of a very fragile, thin, extended
figure – almost the skeletal remains of a man –
was seen by many of the critics as epitomising a
feeling of exhaustion and failure and guilt on the
part of humanity.”
Giacometti, Tate Modern, SE1 9TG, £18.50, until
September 10.
As a child, Alexandra Llewellyn remembers walking
through the markets of Cairo with her Egyptian
grandfather, hearing the constant rattle of dice on
wooden backgammon boards. Now a designer
based in London, she has created a whole range of
luxury boards. The boldest of them all is a limitededition
ebony board made in collaboration with
photographer Terry O’Neill whose photos of 1960s
actresses and models adorn it. There’s Brigitte
Bardot, Raquel Welch, Ursula Andress, Goldie
Hawn, Audrey Hepburn and Twiggy. Each board is
signed by O’Neill, and priced at £5,800.
www.alexandralldesign.com
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