A new exhibition opened yesterday in Paris on the controversial artist’s relationship with Fernand Olivier, her first life partner, especially with regard to the violence that marred her and her outbursts of jealousy and selfishness.
The exhibition at the Montmartre Museum in Paris highlights the rare and intimate testimony of this woman who was not. Her writing skills are well known in her relationship with Pablo Picasso and the artists of the famous apartment complex “Bato Lavoir”. Paris.
The literary works of Fernand Olivier, in particular his memoirs, published in 1988, 20 years after his death, A sort of dialogue with a hundred paintings, sculptures and drawings by Picasso and the great artists of the twentieth century that I met from Primo floor in this famous artist apartment complex built on the Montmartre hill, close to the Sacre Coeur cathedral and the famous “Laban Agile” nightclub. The choice of Fernand Olivier as the theme for this exhibition aims to raise the question of “what is Picasso’s legacy”, about what Cécile Debray, director of the Picasso Museum in Paris which manages the festivities in France, said at a conference Wednesday press on the exhibition. On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Picasso’s death, Debray wants to offer the opportunity to “re-read” the works The artist in a way that “addresses the young public, the one most eager to rethink through social networks. And for the issues raised within “MeToo +”. Born in the United States in October 2017, this movement has encouraged women victims of sexual violence to their testimonies, a great change of mentality around the world and the “distortion” of Picasso, as Debray admitted in an interview with Agence France- Presse in April. Since the painter’s death in 1973 in Mougins on the French Riviera, she has painted a series of controversial books. A very depressing picture of him. It was filmed by a modern feminist podcast dedicated to Picasso, which has 250,000 followers but does not rely on any “historical source,” according to Debray, as a violent and mischievous man who has no qualms about exploiting young women. of life.
“Five years after ‘MeToo’,” said Natalie Bondel, one of the curators of the exhibition, some things should be corrected. Instead of a ‘culture of cancellation’ (which tends to ‘delete’ famous public figures due to past behavior) At the moment women are considered reprehensible, we need to talk about ‘culture of context’.
