A strike endangers the great Picasso exhibition in Malaga

While throughout the world the calendar of shows and tributes for the fifty years of the death of Pablo Picassoone of the most emblematic exhibitions of that agenda that was to be inaugurated in the coming days in the museum dedicated to the artist in Malaga could be postponed due to a strike by space workers that, finding no echo in their demands for a new collective agreement , announced that they will paralyze the institution for five days.

“Enough” finally said the workers of the Picasso Museum of Malagawho, after the lack of progress in 10 months of negotiations to approve their collective agreement, have just called a five-day strike on the eve of the inauguration of the great exhibition that the space is going to host, entitled “The echo of Picasso” and with an inauguration scheduled for October 2, coinciding with the acts for the 50th anniversary of the death of the painter from Malaga.

Museum employees complain that they are the lowest paid in all of Spain among similar art galleries, despite the fact that the Picasso Museum in Malaga is currently among the 10 most visited art centers in the country. and among the 100 internationally. “Luxury museum, discount workers”, denounce the employees on the banners with which they have taken to the streets this summer.

Before beginning the negotiation of the agreement last autumn, the company committee of the Malaga museum carried out a comparative study with agreements of 10 other museum institutions, such as the Carmen Thyssen Museum Málaga and the Thyssen Museum Madrid, the Miró Foundation and the Picasso Museum Barcelona, ​​among others. , and They verified “that the salary and working conditions” were “much inferior” to the rest of the institutions.

The called strike “could seriously hinder” the opening of the exhibition “El eco de Picasso” scheduled for October 2, since the call could even be extended to the week of September 25-29.

The Spanish artist continues to be the protagonist of the exhibitions that arrive at the museums and with which the so-called “Picasso Year” will continue to be celebrated this autumn, which commemorates the 50th anniversary of his death. Exhibitions and activities in his honor have been held throughout the year, together with other proposals such as those dedicated to Antonio López or Joaquín Sorolla, whose death was exactly one hundred years ago.

Exhibitions for the 50th anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso

In the coming months, the museums will address the genius from Malaga from various perspectives: the originality with which he approached the classical world and the Judeo-Christian tradition, his first contribution to the definition of modern art, his relationship with other artists and, specifically, with Joan Miró, his sculptural work or the drawings of his childhood.

The sample “Picasso. The sacred and the profane” can be seen in the thyssen museum Madrid from next October 4, an exhibition that studies how the artist looked at the art of the past and revealed new ways of interpreting history.

Picasso’s desire to permanently reinvent his art, to push it beyond the limits of his time, materialized not only in his spirit of rupture and innovation, but also in his desire to devour and reinterpret the works of the past.

This exhibition, as explained by Thyssen, studies the audacity and originality with which the artist approached both the classical world and the themes of the Judeo-Christian tradition, and reveals his ability to integrate elements and problems of previous art in his own work and to reflect on the ultimate essence of painting.

For his part, he Reina Sofia Museum of Madrid will host the exhibition in November “Picasso 1906. The great transformation”a look at the artist’s first contribution to the definition of “modern art”.

In Barcelona, The Miró-Picasso exhibition will occupy the Picasso Museum and the Joan Miró Foundation simultaneously from Octobercoinciding with the 50th anniversary of the death of the Malaga painter and the 40th of the Barcelona artist.

More than 250 pieces by both artists, both from the two museums and from private collections around the world, will evoke the friendship they maintained throughout their lives and their recognition of Barcelona, ​​where they left a museographic legacy.

Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso, who maintained a close friendship for more than fifty years, chose Barcelona to donate their work in the form of monographic art centers.

He Guggenheim Bilbao will delve into Picasso’s facet as a sculptor, who worked from his artistic beginnings, in the exhibition “Picasso. Matter and body” that will cover the plurality of styles that he used to represent the shapes of the human body.