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december 29, 2021 - Museo Picasso Malaga

MPM exhibition programme 2022

Museo Picasso Málaga presents its exhibition programme for 2022. Until summer of next year, the Málaga museum’s exhibitions will feature Pablo Picasso’s links to the Old Masters, a Paula Rego retrospective, and the photographs of Brassaï.

In February 2022, Museo Picasso Málaga’s annual programme will begin with Face to Face. Picasso and the Old Masters (22nd February – 26th June 2020), in which works by Old Masters such as El Greco and Zurbarán will be shown alongside others by #pablopicasso, discovering links between Picasso’s work and a selection of works by the Old Masters. Michael FitzGerald, professor of modern and contemporary art at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, is the curator of the show, which has been jointly organized by Museo Picasso Málaga and #museodebellasartesdesevilla.

In spring 2022, a retrospective of Paula Rego comes to Málaga (26th April –21st August 2022). It shows the work and tells the story of an artist who led an extraordinary life, highlighting the personal nature of much of her work and the socio-political context in which it is rooted. Paula Rego (Lisbon, 1935) has lived and worked in London since her youth. She redefined figurative art and revolutionized the way women are represented. Power relations, mythology and sexuality are common themes in her work. With this show, Museo Picasso Málaga once again showcases the work of 20th-century women artists, following its exhibitions of the work of Sophie Taeuber- Arp, Hilma af Klint, Louise Bourgeois and women surrealist artists. Curated by Elena Crippa, the exhibition is organized by Tate Britain, in collaboration with Kunstmuseum Den Haag and Museo Picasso Málaga.

Since autumn of last year, MPM has been showing The Paris of Brassaï. Photographs of the City Picasso Loved (19th October 2021 – 3rd April 2022). The exhibition focuses not only on the work of a photographer who constructed a visual topography of the City of Light (and shadows), in the 1930s and 1940s. It also shows Brassaï as a prolific creative artist who deigned books, drew nudes, and carved sculptures. Because the exhibition is being held at Museo Picasso Málaga, of the many relationships he forged in Paris with writers, essayists, playwrights, and visual artists, it focuses on his close and fertile professional and personal relationship with #pablopicasso.

FACE TO FACE. PICASSO AND THE OLD MASTERS

22 Feb. – 26 Jun. 2022

The exhibition, jointly organized with #museodebellasartesdesevilla, will be a unique opportunity to discover the links between #pablopicasso and leading artists of the past. Paintings by El Greco, Francisco Pacheco, Giovanni Battista Caracciolo, Francisco de Zurbarán, Cornelius Norbertus Gijsbretchs, Bernardo Lorente Germán and Diego Bejarano will be hung alongside major works by #pablopicasso.

Face to Face. Picasso and the Old Masters presents paintings from the Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla’s remarkable collection of Spanish and other European Masters opposite nine important works by Picasso belonging to the Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el #arte (FABA). The exhibition at the MPM is distinguished from its previous appearance at the #museodebellasartesdesevilla by the inclusion of an exceptional additional painting by Picasso in the collection of the Museo de Málaga.

By juxtaposing works by Picasso with those of the Old Masters, the exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to discover the links between Picasso’s work and those by El Greco, Francisco Pacheco, Giovanni Battista Caracciolo, Francisco de Zurbarán, Cornelius Norbertus Gijsbretchs, Bernardo Lorente Germán and Diego Bejarano. These pairings not only enable viewers to make specific comparisons between the work of Picasso and the Masters in order to understand how deeply Picasso’s art was rooted in Spanish traditions. The juxtapositions also allow us to discern how he transformed these traditions into the revolutionary art of the 20th century.

Pablo Picasso transformed 20th-century art, yet he was a keen student with a profound interested in the art of the past. His work was deeply rooted in Spanish culture, particularly in the baroque period. The achievements of these Spanish Masters provided Picasso with models and techniques that drove him both to emulate and transform tradition. In this complex response, Picasso explored how the Masters themselves had responded to the classical tradition by embracing styles that the purists had excluded from the classical canon of Italy and France.

Face to Face. Picasso and the Old Masters is jointly organized by Museo Picasso Málaga and #museodebellasartesdesevilla, and has been curated by curated by Michael FitzGerald, professor of modern and contemporary art at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.

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