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The selection of works by the Spanish painter is one of the great projects of the Museo Picasso Málaga for 2022.

EFE

December 31, 2021 – 09h46

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The Picasso Museum of Malaga (MPM, southern Spain) will discover the links of the Spanish painter with great masters of the past such as El Greco and Francisco de Zurbarán with a selection of some of his most important works and will show a retrospective of the Lisbon artist Paula Rego in its 2022 program.

In February, the space will begin its annual programming with Face to Face. Picasso and the old masters, an exhibition organized together with the Museum of Fine Arts of Seville that will be exhibited until June 26 and curated by Michael FitzGerald, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.

Already in the spring of next year, a Paula Rego retrospective (from April 26 to August 21, 2022) that will reveal the work and history of an artist with an extraordinary life, as well as the personal nature of much of her work in the socio-political context in which it is rooted.

Paula Rego (Lisbon, 1935), who lives and works in London since her youth, redefines figurative art and revolutionizes the way in which women and power relations are represented; mythology and sexuality are common themes in his work, highlights the MPM in a statement.

Curated by Elena Crippa, the exhibition was organized by Tate Britain in collaboration with the Kunstmuseum Den Haag and the Picasso Museum in Malaga.

This space thus returns to bet on the work of valuing the woman artist of the 20th century, after previous exhibitions dedicated to Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Hilma af Klint, Louise Bourgeois and the surrealist artists.

On the other hand, since last autumn, the Museo Picasso Málaga exhibits “The Paris of Brassaï. Photos of the city that Picasso loved ” until April 17, 2022, an exhibition that focuses on the activity of a photographer who built a visual topography of the city of light (and shadows) in the 1930s and 1940s.

Of the many relationships that he establishes in Paris with writers, essayists, playwrights or visual artists, when held at the Museo Picasso Málaga, the exhibition gives main importance to his close and fruitful professional and personal relationship with Pablo Picasso, highlights the MPM. (F)

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