Picasso Museum Barcelona

Cubism and war

Picasso Museum Barcelona

The exhibition Cubism and war. The glass on the flames will star in programming the Museu Picasso de Barcelona has prepared for 2016. It will bring together more than 80 works by Picasso, Juan Gris, Diego Ribera, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger Maria Blanchard or Gino Severini and It may be later this year.

Bernardo Laniado-Romero, director of the Picasso Museum, explained on Wednesday that this exhibition, curated by Christopher Green, professor emeritus of art history at the Courtauld Institute in London, focuses on the survival of European artistic vanguard established in Paris for World War I, and his response to the war.

The works to be exhibited, made between 1913 and 1919, are, according to the director, “a sample of artists in the rearguard that respond to war with a burst of energy,” which focuses particularly on three artists: Picasso, Gris and Ribera. The works for this exhibition, which opens on October 20 and runs until January 29, 2017, came from disposals of some of the most important museums in the world.

Collaboration with the National Gallery in London

2016 program also highlights the Picasso exhibition, portraits, a project that will be presented first in London and is a collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery in London. This exhibition “redefines the established parameters of the concept of portraiture in Picasso”, a song that is not from 1996, highlighted Bernardo Laniado-Romero.

The exhibition, which will be in London from October 2016 to February 2017, and in Barcelona from March 2 to June 25, 2017, is a new perception of what it means to Picasso portrait, “a place where constantly painter breaks boundaries and meanings established. ”

Another exhibition that the Museum has prepared for a foreign center is Picasso before Picasso, which will be exhibited at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Humlebaek, Denmark), made up of 27 drawings from the collection of the Barcelona museum “tell the story of the Picasso training, from schools before their schooling, until its passage through the educational system by his father and the Llotja school, portrait, landscape and urban life. ” In exchange for organizing this exhibition, Picasso received on deposit three major works of the last period of Picasso, painted in 1959, 1961 and 1971 card player that will be posted next week.

Photography and research

By June 2016 it has also organized a selection of photographs that looks at Picasso ceramic work. This year a new catalog of paintings and sculptures from the Museum will be presented (the latest is 1984) revised after 304 paintings and 2 sculptures. In addition, work on the research of some works of Picasso as Harlequin, Woman with Mantilla and the Columbus monument, among others, whose result was presented at the Third International Symposium organized by the Museum restoration next year.

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A church is a garden

Santi Moix painting 1

Santi Moix, the Catalan painter born in Barcelona in 1960, has spent many summers in Saurí (Pallars Sobirà), so when the villagers, during the festival, asked him if he would intervene Romanesque church, he said yes. Although he did not think that things come to port. But it came. Thus, the New York based artist got down to work. The immediate goal: to marry contemporary art with a church of the twelfth century to recover. The long-term objective “intervene ancient churches in the area that take years to reopen closed and create a route to attract public” he says.

When started thinking about the project, had very clear that wanted to work full of “color and energy ‘as far as possible from the” darkness and sadness “that sometimes evoke these places. And an intervention that would allow parishioners “feel good, let go and seek his inner world without imposing images.” In short, “a decoration full of flowers and nature that made reference to the environment where it is located.” The result Moix defined as “a cave of colors” and as “a church that is a garden”. All sprinkled with texts by J. V. Foix and Cavafy.

Santi Moix painting 2

First he thought of projecting images and grow fungi to draw space. But the Centre de Restauració Bens Mobles de Catalunya suggested to paint al fresco. “The technique of techniques” that Moix had never used but now passionately defends “A very sophisticated technique that allows great freedom gesture that puts you in your place: the correction is not possible.”

Porcelain flower

The suggestion fresco painting was the only one received. For the rest he has had complete freedom, both by locals as the Bishop of Urgell. “I told them I would not make saints or virgins, but nature and light. And they were very receptive “he says.

Santi Moix painting 3

Although there are some religious reference as the four evangelists and feet of Christ. For the last stage of the project, when there is funding left the representation of the resurrection: “A large flower in the apse in layers of petals made from porcelain and ceramic scatter light and color. Something very complicated technically, “he explains.

For now, he made like and attracts curious. “Every day I receive visits and I have to convince to return to the last minute. Since the walls make me time. ” And the cool does not support or corrections or delays.

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