Douglas Gordon / Alberto Giacometti - The morning after

Nothing predisposed Douglas Gordon to meet Alberto Giacometti. The year 1966 where the latter dies at the hospital in Chur in Switzerland is the one that sees Douglas Gordon was born in Glasgow, Scotland. We could stop there and consider that the The chronology of these two milestones of existence alone justifies bringing together two artists whose work is particularly haunted by what brings us back to our human condition and the justified fear of certain death. And Yet... Nothing made Douglas Gordon likely to meet Alberto Giacometti. 1966, the year when he died in the hospital in Coire in Switzerland was the year Douglas Gordon was born in Glasgow, Scotland. One could stop there and consider that the chronology of those two landmarks of existence alone justifies uniting two artists whose work is haunted particularly by what leads us back to our human condition and the justified fear of a certain death. And yet...