Spain and France will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of the plastic artist Pablo Picasso with a joint and international program, which starts this Monday and will run until 2023, with more than 40 exhibitions.
The public presentation of the “Celebration Picasso 1973-2023” program took place this Monday at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, together with “Guernica”one of the most emblematic works of Picasso, and was attended by the Ministers of Culture of Spain, Miquel Iceta, and of France, Rima Abdul Malak.
The joint program aims to “value the trajectory of a fundamentally European artist who, based on a deep knowledge of heritage, tradition and an understanding of classicism as an ethical value, internationally designed universal symbols such as Guernica,” said the organization, in a Press release.
Among the dozens of proposed initiatives, there are 16 exhibitions in Spain, 12 in France, seven in the united states and other exhibitions dedicated to Picasso in Germany, Swiss, Monaco, Romania Y Belgium.
At the end of this year there will be an international congress on the work of Pablo Picasso in Madrid, and at the end of 2023 a similar symposium is planned in Paris; both with the intention of “doing a balance of the investigations and interpretations of the work of Picasso”.
By 2023, the inauguration of the Picasso Study Center at the Musée National Picasso-Paris, in the French capital, which aims to be “a center of reference” for the Andalusian painter’s artistic work.
The official program for the 50th anniversary of Picasso’s death starts this Monday with a conference at the Prado Museum, in Madrid, with art critics Diego’s star.
Pablo Picasso, one of the most illustrious representatives of Cubism, an artistic movement of the early 20th century, was born in Malaga on October 25, 1881 and died in Mougins, France, on April 8, 1973.
Source: Observadora
