The country’s main museums will host exhibitions on the painter in the last quarter of 2022 and in 2023
The commemorations of the 50th anniversary of Picasso’s death are beginning to take shape. During the last quarter of 2022 and in 2023, exhibitions will be held in the main museums in Spain and France in memory of the painter from Malaga, who died on April 8, 1973 in the Gallic commune of Mougins.
The Executive Commission of the National Commission for the Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Death of Pablo Picasso, made up of representatives of the Spanish and French governments, held its second meeting this Thursday, the first of Carlos Alberdi as Commissioner following the death of former Minister José Guirao, and agreed to hold 40 exhibitions, 15 of which will be in Spain and the rest in France and also in North America.
The Museu Picasso Barcelona, the Museo Picasso Málaga, the Museo Casa Natal Picasso, also in Málaga, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, the Museo Nacional del Prado, the Museo de Belas Artes da Coruña, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the Museu del Disseny de Barcelona, the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando de Madrid, the Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; the Mapfre Foundation, Madrid; La Casa Encendida, Madrid and the Cine Doré of the Spanish Film Library will host the shows in the coming months.
In addition, Malaga, La Coruña, Madrid and Barcelona, cities specially associated with the artist, will offer programs to disseminate the painter’s works, and two academic congresses will also be organized, an “essential meeting point for scientific exchanges between researchers and experts in the artist’s work and an opportunity to prepare a historiographical study of Picasso’s work,” said the Ministry of Culture, which presented the event logo this Thursday.
Source: La Verdad
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