MADRID - 'Pablo Picasso: structures of invention.
The unity of a work', is the exhibition presented at the Picasso Museum in Malaga (Mpm), which in an itinerary through 140 works by the Andalusian artist (1881-1973) proposes a revisitation of his collection, to show the unity global scope of the work beyond the division into periods or styles.
Paintings, sculptures, drawings, ceramics and graphic works reveal new connections between Picasso's work, challenging traditional classifications, as explained by Michael FritzGerald, Kluger Family Professor of Art History at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, (United States Uniti), curator of the new 'cartography' of Picasso's work, which will remain on display at the Malaga Museum for the next three years.
Created in collaboration with the Almine Foundation and Bernard Ruiz-Picasso (Faba), the reorganization aims to demonstrate overall the artist's ability to create innovative structures that made him one of the most influential figures of his time.
The new look is combined with the great sentimental value of the assembled collection, since "all these works come from Picasso, who kept them throughout his entire life and they were in his possession when he died", explained Michael FritzGerald, taken up by Europa Press agency.
"Picasso loved them so much that he kept them. And this was the way in which he could see his early works and use them for later ones, because he had them available at home, literally on sight, and he lived in this mix of styles and periods", added the expert.
The idea of unity underlying the reorganization aims "to create a unicum of Picasso's work which is normally divided into different eras such as the blue, the pink or cubism".
"We decided not to follow this division and indeed to contradict it, because Picasso's creative process was much more complex and the artist used to move from one period to another, in a back and forth process."
The itinerary among the works on display, created between 1895 and 1972, also includes five focuses on specific themes, such as Picasso's relationship with African sculpture, his paintings on large wooden panels, the plaster sculptures of the 1930s and his life in Paris during the Second World War with the panel created for the UNESCO headquarters in the French capital.
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