Augusto Giacometti Enter a
feeling, not
a gallery.
Choose a mood and the room itself answers — the light cools or warms, the air changes pace, and only the works that carry that feeling step forward from the dark. Everything else recedes into shadow.
Augusto Giacometti
The Master of Color Stampa, Switzerland, 1877. The air in the Val Bregaglia is sharp, and for Antonio Augusto Giacometti, the world begins with the heavy weight of lineage. He is a second cousin to Giovanni Giacometti, part of an extended family tree that would eventually produce Alberto and Diego. His early years are shaped by the schools of Stampa, Zurich, and Chur, but his eyes soon drift toward the light of Paris. In Paris, betwee
n 1897 and 1901, the atmosphere shifts. Under the guidance of Eugène Grasset at the School of Decorative Arts, Giacometti learns the language of floral graphics. He adopts a style reminiscent of William Morris, applying manual skill to mosaics, clocks, and posters. The decorative becomes his foundation. He moves through Florence, absorbing the influence of Renaissance masters like Beato Angelico, before settling in Zurich in 1915. The…