Picasso will star at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels this fall

The year 2023 will be the Picasso year the reason? 50 years have passed since the death of the iconic painter, this is the excuse to remember him in 2023 a little more than in other years; Well, before that anniversary, in Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Brussels, and in collaboration with the National Picasso Museum in Paris, they are preparing to hold an exceptional exhibition that explores the intense relationship between Picasso and abstraction; to make this journey towards Picasso’s abstraction, more than that 140 works by the painter in a single exhibition and, dare we say, unrepeatable.

The sample Picasso and abstraction it can be visited at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels from next 14 October and until 12 February 2023 and it is only the beginning of the celebrations in honor of Picasso, there will be more events and exhibitions as part of the project ‘Picasso Celebration 1973-2023: 50 exhibitions and events to celebrate Picasso‘.

But, Focusing on this particular exhibition opening next month, what’s so special about it? Two aspects should be highlighted: the first is the chronological and thematic review of Picasso’s career and his relationship with abstract and figurative art through 140 works that, taken together, are able to show us the evolutionary path followed by the Malagasy artist; Another curious aspect and the sea of ​​attraction of this exhibition is the small journey that allows us to create the artist’s workshop, a small sample of a series of drawings and engravings that allow us to understand Picasso’s working method.

If you are a lover of painting and, in particular, of Picasso’s work, your Picasso year could very well begin in Brussels next October because, moreover, the exhibition will not be a simple exhibition of the artist’s work, but rather several conferences will be organized and there will also be a masterclass given by historian Marianne Knop to bring us closer to Picasso’s work in a way that has not been done to date.

Which paintings will be exhibited in this temporary exhibition of Picasso’s work in Brussels? Since there are 140, we cannot list them all, but we can refer to some of the most notable: La Cocina (November 1948) and El Árbol (summer 1907), both of which are included in the graphic material illustrating this news. ? Guitar (spring 1913), Figure (November 1948) or Musician (May 1972). And so up to 140 works that cross the painter’s work and draw before our eyes, as a whole, the relationship with the abstract and the figurative, with what was, and is, his art.

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