Films
Faces and Landscapes of Home
Alberto Giacometti’s lifelong connection to his Swiss roots
Ursula presents a new short film produced alongside the exhibition Alberto Giacometti: Faces and Landscapes of Home at Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz. Featuring the voices of curator Tobia Bezzola and filmmaker Susanna Fanzun, this short film illuminates the artist’s enduring ties to the place that shaped his early life and sustained his creative practice—the remote Bregaglia Valley in Switzerland.
The son of a leading modernist painter, Giovanni Giacometti, Alberto’s early works include intimate portrayals of his family and the alpine surroundings. Giacometti’s distinct artistic language was formed between mountain landscape and the restless intensity of Paris. In the French metropolis, Giacometti’s practice evolved in close dialogue with the avant-garde, leading to the development of his visionary elongated figures through which he explored figuration and the human condition.
“He grows up between two worlds—between a very traditional rural community and the European art world, which would remain with him throughout his life.”—Tobia Bezzola
Ernst Scheidegger, Alberto Giacometti vor dem Elternhaus auf der Dorfstrasse in Stampa (Alberto Giacometti in front of his parents' house on the village street in Stampa), 1961. © Succession Alberto Giacometti / 2025, ProLitteris, Zurich. Photo © 2025 Stiftung Ernst Scheidegger-Archiv, Zürich
Alberto Giacometti, Selbstbildnis (Self Portrait), 1920. Courtesy Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Sammlung Beyeler © Succession Alberto Giacometti / 2025, ProLitteris, Zurich. Photo: Robert Bayer
“He was deeply and utterly connected to the valley and the people and he carried that enduring sense of belonging wherever his travels took him.”—Susanna Fanzun
Giacometti’s frequently returned to his childhood home, including his wood-panelled atelier in Stampa, where he produced numerous works included in the exhibition in St Moritz. Away from the busy Paris art world, Giacometti’s private world is reflected in the intimate images by Swiss photographer Ernst Scheidegger, a close friend of the artist.
Spanning painting, drawing and sculpture, the St Moritz exhibition of works by Giacometti reflect an attention to both the human figure and the terrain that surrounds it. The intensity and psychological depth of Giacometti’s oeuvre is brought into focus in these deeply personal portraits and views of home.
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“Alberto Giacometti: Faces and Landscapes of Home” is on view at Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz from 13 December 2025 – 28 March 2026.
Tobia Bezzola is an art historian and curator. He is director of the Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana (MASI) in Lugano, lecturer in Contemporary Art History at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, and curator of the exhibition “Alberto Giacometti: Faces and Landscapes of Home.”
Susanna Fanzun is a documentary filmmaker based in Engadin, Switzerland. Her work includes “I Giacometti” (2023), which traces the artistic origins of the Giacometti family and their connection to the alpine Bregaglia valley.