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title: "The overwhelming and the lonely"
date: 2017-01-12
url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/alberto-giacometti-switzerland-alps-bergell-bruce-nauman-new-mexico-galisteo-desert-giacometti-nauman-context-en/"
description: "The breadth of the desert and the density of the Swiss Alps: an intellectual game about the correlations between origins, living space and art in Giacometti and Nauman."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Header_Desert_Landscape_New_Mexico_Wikimedia_Commons_Thomas_Shahan.jpg"
language: "en-US"
---

# The overwhelming and the lonely