The Las Claras Cultural Center of the Cajamurcia Foundation hosts from this Thursday to April 23 the ‘Vollard Suite’ of the ICO collection on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of the genius from Malaga
April 8 marks the 50th anniversary of Picasso’s death, and Murcia is dedicating its special tribute to him with the ‘Suite Vollard’ exhibition at the Cultural Center of the Cajamurcia Foundation, opening this Thursday at 7:30 pm. on view until April 23. An exhibition belonging to the ICO Collections, whose president, Licinio Muñoz, noted that with Picasso’s ‘Vollard Suite’ he showed his entire artistic heritage in Murcia, divided into three collections of contemporary sculpture and drawings. “The editing was fantastic,” said Muñoz. The ICO Foundation runs its own museum in Madrid and dedicates two exhibitions per year related to architecture and one photography to the PhotoEspaña festival. In particular, the exhibition shown in Murcia is one of the few that exists completely. “It is one of the most important collections of engravings of the 20th century, a kind of Picasso’s notebook,” summarized Muñoz, who invited Murcians to enjoy Picasso.
Marisa Oropesa, curator of the exhibition, emphasized that she loves the Las Claras space of the Cajamurcia Foundation and is happy that this collection is being welcomed in Murcia. Ambroise Vollard, the dealer and friend of Picasso who died in 1939, obtained the artist’s ninety-seven copper engravings two years earlier in exchange for a large number of the dealer’s paintings that Picasso wanted for his private collection.
The man from Malaga made more than 2,500 engravings. According to Oropesa, “he was a genius in absolutely everything and there is no one in art history who has made so many engravings”. Moreover, if he were alive today, the police station would liken him to a “youtuber” because his work is linked to his own experiences, often in the whirlwind of his stormy relationships with Olga Koklova, Marie-Thérèse Walter and Dora Maar. There are engravings dedicated to his beloved Rembrandt, there are eleven minotaurs, which Oropesa believes is actually Picasso himself (painting himself as half man, half bull) and the model is his partner at the time, Marie Thérèse Walter. From the 1930s to 1937, he depicts his passions and motivations in engravings grouped into different themes. One of them is ‘The battle of love’. Some of these engravings are made with diamond ink. “He was a person who lived for art, breathed for art,” said the police agency, who recalled becoming director of the Prado Museum in that turbulent decade of the 1930s, although he did not take office. «I have never seen such a beautiful arrangement of this exhibition, it is the first time I have seen it so beautifully»,
“It was a pleasure to be able to do these murals and extend that drawing of Picasso’s engravings on the wall. It was a very nice job and for me it’s a great opportunity,” noted Murcian artist Ana Ruiz Abellón, who created a series of murals that appear in the Las Claras room with Picasso’s work. The ICO Foundation praised his contribution and counts on this montage for future exhibition projects.
Pascual Martínez, Director of the Cajamurcia Foundation, thanked the ICO Foundation for supporting contemporary Spanish art and the promotion of culture through knowledge, and expressed the willingness of the institution to continue working together.
Source: La Verdad
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