Monday 12 September 2022 – 11:20 pm
Madrid, September 12 / WAM / 42 exhibitions around the world to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the artist Pablo Picasso, extend from the Prado Museum in Madrid to the Center Pompidou in France, passing through the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
In a statement to reporters, Miguel Esita said, during his launch today of the “Picasso Year” activities at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, that 38 major institutions in Europe and the United States are participating in this event, including France. and Spain has been preparing for a period of 18 months.
Faced with Picasso’s 1937 painting “Guernica”, which is one of the most famous works in the world, Isita stressed that the purpose of the “Anno Picasso” is to present the artist as he was and to highlight his artistic heritage and the permanence of his works.
For his part, the French Minister of Culture Rima Abdel-Malik said that these exhibitions allow you to show all aspects of the Spanish artist, born in 1881 in Malaga, southern Spain, and died in 1973 in Mougins, southern Spain. east of France.
At the same time, a series of conferences and debates on the painter and his works are held.
The French minister believed that this painting, which immortalized the massacre of Guernica, bombed by Nazi planes in April 1937 during the Spanish Civil War in support of General Franco, is a “declaration of peace”.
The celebrations will begin on 23 September with an exhibition on “Pablo Picasso and the dematerialization of sculpture” at the Mabvrira Foundation in Madrid.
The program ends in April 2024 with a retrospective of modernist Paris – 1905 – 1925 – at the Petit Palais in Paris.
Most of the honor activities for the Spanish painter, described by the French minister as the most famous face of modern art, take place in Spain, France and the United States, as well as in Germany, Switzerland, Romania and Belgium.
Institutions participating in the activities include the Metropolitan Museum of Art “New York”, the Prado Museum “Madrid”, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the Center Pompidou “Paris” and the Picasso Museums in Barcelona and Paris.
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