Monday, September 12, 2022 – 11:20 PM
Madrid, September 12 / WAM / 42 exhibitions are being held around the world to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the artist Pablo Picasso, extending from the Prado Museum in Madrid to the Pompidou Center in France, passing through the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
In a statement to reporters, Miguel Esita said, during his launch today of the activities of the “Picasso Year” at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, that 38 important institutions in Europe and the United States are participating in this event, which France and Spain have prepared for. over a period of 18 months.
In front of Picasso’s painting “Guernica” in 1937, which is one of the most famous works in the world, Isita pointed out that the purpose of the “Year of Picasso” is to introduce the artist as he was and to highlight his artistic heritage and the permanence of his works.
For her part, French Minister of Culture Rima Abdel-Malik said that these exhibitions allow to show all aspects of the Spanish artist, who was born in 1881 in Malaga, southern Spain, and died in 1973 in Mougins, southeast France.
In parallel, a series of conferences and debates regarding the painter and his works are held.
The French minister considered that this painting, which immortalized the massacre of Guernica, which was bombed by Nazi aircraft in April 1937 during the Spanish Civil War in support of General Franco, is a “declaration for peace.”
The festivities will begin on September 23 with an exhibition on “Pablo Picasso and the Dematerialization of Sculpture” at the Mabvrira Foundation in Madrid.
The program concludes in April 2024 with a retrospective of modernist Paris – 1905 – 1925 – at the Petit Palais in Paris.
Most of the honoring activities for the Spanish painter, who was described by the French Minister as the most famous face of modern art, are held 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 Pompidou Center “Paris” and the Picasso Museums in Barcelona and Paris.
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Wam / Abdel Nasser Monem
