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2023 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso. La Casa de Velázquez joins in this commemoration with an exhibition from 27 October to 15 February 2024 in which the artist’s graphic works establish a dialogue with archival photographs, letters and audiovisual documents. It is an exhibition created around the fictitious meeting of three leading names in Spanish art.
The exhibition, curated by Emmanuel Guigon, Director of the Picasso Museum in Barcelona, takes the form of a poetic-aesthetic journey that focuses on the question of creation and its variations, as well as works created especially for the event by renowned contemporary artists. This plural and trans-disciplinary exhibition will be accompanied by an international seminar.
Between August and December 1957, Pablo Picasso locked himself away and abandoned himself to a pictorial frenzy that would give rise to Las Meninas: a series of more than fifty paintings, as well as other variations on the same theme. In 2018, Carmen Calvo began a series of modified postcards entitled El tiempo que apasiona, which was extended in 2023 for the anthology dedicated to her by the Picasso Museum in Barcelona, inspired by Las Meninas, by both Velázquez and Picasso.
This exhibition highlights this connection that crosses the ages and celebrates what is at stake in the intimacy of the artistic gesture through inspiration and legacy. The exhibition is divided into two complementary sections. The first, which is more documentary and didactic, is conceived as a three-dimensional display of the book Diego Velázquez invites Pablo Picasso published by the Casa de Velázquez in conjunction with the Picasso Museum in Barcelona. The second is a compilation of the El tiempo que apasiona series by Carmen Calvo which has been extended with 110 new postcards.
Docking station: INEF (Avenida Juan de Herrera frente a la calle Paul Guinard)
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Monday to Sunday: 10am - 7pm
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