The exhibition PICASSO EFFECT, organized by MARe/Museum of Recent Art, brings Picasso’s painting to Romania for the first time.
The event marks 50 years since the death of Pablo Picasso. Romania is the only country among the Central and Eastern European states that is part of the large project launched by Spain and France: #picassocelebration.

Thursday, December 28, between 7-8 p.m., the exhibition can be visited in the company of the artist Alexandru Rădvan, present in the exhibition with the work Zeus and Europa.

“My relationship with Picasso began when I was in the 7th grade. A fairly light article in Mondorama magazine intrigued me and made me curious.
I still remember a wording from that article: “…young Paolo learned French in the arms of prostitutes”. Beyond the cheap spiciness, the images also provoked and unsettled me. Something from the blue period. I didn’t know if I liked them or not. Over time I came to see a lot of Picasso images and always the same mixed feeling, strong, brutal and educated at the same time. I realized that my fascination with him had nothing to do with his life story, but only with the plastic tumult. I’m interested in all the moments when he was low and very low, when he did stupid things, when he “damaged”.
They are inexhaustible sources of study, full of vitality. No other artist has this power over me, to pull me out of moments of crisis. A spring of living water. There are days when I can’t bear to see any of his work, yet my respect remains undiminished. I could write a lot. He’s one of my masters (is that term still used?). It’s not his personal life that interests me, but he’s one of those people who provides me with a role model for how I want to age. And not only. I often say that I would like to die like Picasso: paint in the morning, lie down at noon and stay like that…”
Alexandru Rădvan

Tickets can be purchased here.
Places are limited.