ALBERTO GIACOMETTI / SALVADOR DALÍ. GARDENS OF DREAMS

At the beginning of the 1930s, Giacometti and Dalí jointly imagined an extraordinary garden for the Viscount and Viscountess de Noailles. This four-handed project, known through its drawings, integrated surrealist works by Giacometti into a vast and dreamlike landscape particular to Dali’s style. This fantasy landscape also contained a sculptural setting designed by Giacometti for an outdoor space called Project for a square.

For the first time, Institut Giacometti presents the recreation of Project for a square. Created in 1931 this masterpiece is a large-scale installation illustrating the design of a garden, conceptualized by both Giacometti and Dalí, proof of their taste for ambiguous forms and images.

Exceptional loans from Centre Pompidou Musée national d’art moderne (Paris), Museo Reina Sofia (Madrid), Kunsthaus (Zurich) and private collections explore the deep connections between Dalí’s surreal paintings and Giacometti’s enigmatic sculptures.