This year marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). The event is marked by 42 exhibitions focused on the work, figure, and influence of the exemplary artist of modernity.
Exhibitions are held worldwide, in France and Spain, in the USA and Switzerland, in Belgium and Germany, in museums such as the Pompidou Center and the Guggenheim Bilbao, the Brooklyn Museum and the Beyeler Foundation Basel, the Royal Museum of Art in Brussels and the Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal. Romania is the only country among Central and Eastern European states that is part of the large project launched by Spain and France through a governmental partnership.
The “Picasso Effect” exhibition is Romania’s contribution to the Pablo Picasso anniversary year, being part of the network of 42 exhibitions. Made by MARe/Museum of Recent Art Bucharest in collaboration with the Picasso Museum in Paris, the “Picasso Effect” will occur between September 27, 2023, and January 8, 2024.
The exhibition will host special events, international conferences, and innovative educational and artistic mediation programs.
The exhibition will bring together 46 works by Pablo Picasso from the heritage of the National Picasso Museum in Paris. Famous paintings, some of them large, which, together with his drawings and graphic works (the artist’s copies from Picasso’s collection, donated to the French state) marked the evolution of world art over several decades, will be exhibited for the first time in Romania.
Along with Pablo Picasso’s works, 60 works signed by 33 modern and contemporary Romanian artists will be presented, highlighting the impact of Picasso’s work and figure on our art in the second half of the 20th century and at the beginning of the 21st century.
“The Picasso Effect is a path-breaking exhibition. It will not only reconnect at a high level after 55 years since the 1968 Picasso exhibition. Still, it will be a model and resource for future generations of artists and their audiences, for local and regional society and culture. The Picasso Effect at MARe/Museum of Recent Art Bucharest will be a significant cultural event of the decade.
Conceived together with the Picasso Museum in Paris, supported and sponsored by local institutions and corporations, the exhibition and related activities will mark a new level of social engagement in the development of a modern audience and an innovative society with a high standard of quality of life and superior cultural skills and aspirations. The Picasso Effect exhibition will occupy MARe in its entirety,” said Erwin Kessler, Director of the Museum of Recent Art.
Tickets can be purchased here.
Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, sculptor, engraver, ceramicist, and set designer, was born on October 25, 1881, in Málaga, Spain, and died on April 8, 1973, in Mougins, France.
Pablo Picasso was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century who, along with Georges Braque, created Cubism, the avant-garde artistic movement of the early 20th century that revolutionized European painting and sculpture and inspired related creative activities in music, literature, and architecture.
The Cubist style emphasized the flat, two-dimensional surface of the picture plane, rejecting traditional techniques of perspective, foreshortening, modeling, and chiaroscuro and rejecting traditional theories that art should imitate nature.
His best-known works are Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1909) and Guernica (1937).
Institutional partners: Musée National Picasso-Paris, Ministry of Culture, Ministry of National Defense, Bucharest City Hall-ARCUB, French Embassy, French Institute Bucharest
Main sponsors: Lidl Romania, Mega Mall, Promenada Bucharest
Sponsors: Vinci, Regina Maria, Porsche, Aqua Carpatica
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