One of the most resonant will be in the Picasso Museum from Paris, where Paul Smiththe British fashion designer, will become the curator of an exhibition of works by the Spanish master mixed with pieces by contemporary artists such as Mickalene Thomas Y Cheri Samba. It will be from March 7 to August 6.
The Picasso Museum of Malaga, for its part, will celebrate the artist and, at the same time, its own 20th anniversary. will exhibit “Picasso: Matter and Body” from May 8 to September 10, an exhibition that will later travel to the Guggenheim Bilbao.
Sculpture, which is usually seen as a secondary medium in Picasso’s career, will be the protagonist of an exhibition curated by Carmen Gimenezwhich aims to show that the sculptures he made throughout his life in various materials are an integral part of his work.
Smaller shows will take place in the French Magnelli Museum Y Ceramics Museum-Vallauris (between May 6 and October 30) and in the Design Museum in Barcelona (June to September) will show another underappreciated side of Picasso’s career: his work in ceramics.
The moment in which the artist left behind his Rose Period to take a more experimental direction will be taken by the Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum from Madrid to “Picasso 1906: The Turning Point”between November 14 and March 4, 2024.
The Museum of Modern Art in New York will also resume this phase with “Picasso in Fontainebleau” (from October 1 to February 2, 2024), focusing only on those three months of creative explosion in the artist’s career. The exhibition will include preparatory paintings, drawings, engravings and unpublished photographs of that fruitful summer.
Other museums have organized various exhibitions linking Picasso with other artists. Whether with those who influenced him, such as El Greco (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, June 13-September 17) and Nicolas Poussin (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, until March 5), or contemporaries such as Joan Miro (Museu Picasso, Barcelona, October 19-February 25, 2024) and Max Beckman (Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal, September 17-
January 7, 2024). The Musee du Luxembourg de París will also deepen the friendship that Picasso had with the American writer Gertrude Stein (September 13-January 28, 2024).
The controversial relationships that Picasso had with women will also be the focus of some projects for the anniversary. “Fernande and Francoise” at the Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso Münster (until January 21) takes up the story of the artist’s relationship with Fernande Olivier and Francoise Gilot, who published memories about their time with the artist. Both women appear in some of his best-known works, but the relationships were tumultuous and at times abusive.
The Fondation Beyeler in Switzerland, for its part, will examine Picasso’s paintings from his late career (February 19 to May 1), which also “raise questions about the representation of women in art today,” the statement said. museum press.
New York’s Brooklyn Museum (June 2-Sept. 24) will take up the theme again in a show curated by Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby, which will look at Picasso’s work through a feminist lens and delve into “the interconnected themes of misogyny, masculinity, creativity and ‘genius’, particularly around a complex and mythologized figure like Picasso”, as the Museum defines the project. Within this framework, she will combine the work of Picasso with that of contemporary female artists such as Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith and Ana Mendieta.
Source: Ambito
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