An exhibition The twenty or so solo or group exhibitions since 1973 that
have focused on the study of the posterity of Pablo Picasso’s oeuvre
testify to its impact on contemporary art.
The exhibition at the Grand Palais
takes a simultaneously chronological and thematic approach to the
critical and artistic highlights of Picasso’s career and the myth that
gradually built up around his name.
From Cubist still lifes to
the Musketeers in the exhibitions in Avignon in 1970 and 1973, the
exhibition is punctuated by works by Picasso from the collections of the
Picasso Museum in Paris, the Musée National d’art Moderne, and the
artist’s family. They are presented in a way reminiscent of the artist’s
arrangements in his studios and the exhibitions that he personally
supervised (Georges Petit gallery in Paris in 1932, Palais des Papes in
Avignon in 1970, and 1973).
The great stylistic phases (Cubism,
last work), and emblematic works by Pablo Picasso (Les Demoiselles
d’Avignon, Guernica) are put alongside contemporary creations, grouped
by artist (Hockney, Johns, Lichtenstein, Kippenberger..), or by theme,
in a great variety of media and techniques (video, painting, sculpture,
graphic arts, film, photography, installation).
General curator : Didier Ottinger, assistant director of the Musée national d’Art moderne - Centre Pompidou
Curators : Diana Widmaier-Picasso, art historian
Emilie Bouvard, curator at the Musée national Picasso-Paris
Exhibition design : bGc studio
An
exhibition organised by the Réunion des musées nationaux – Grand
Palais, the Centre Pompidou and the Musée national
Picasso-Paris.organised by the Réunion des musées nationaux – Grand Palais, the Centre Pompidou and the Musée national Picasso-Paris.
