Galerie Claude Lemand

The Picasso Museum of Barcelona has sched­uled a very inter­esting his­tor­ical and uni­versal exhi­bi­tion enti­tled Post-Picasso: Contemporary Reactions. This exhi­bi­tion will show­case 75 works (dating from 1963 until today), by 47 artists (who have suc­cess­fully cre­ated an artistic dia­logue with Picasso’s oeuvre), coming from 12 dif­ferent coun­tries of all con­ti­nents.

The Iraqi artist from London, Dia Al-Azzawi, was invited to par­tic­i­pate to this ground­breaking show. The Tate Modern sent its apolo­gies for not being able to lend the polyp­tych Sabra & Chatila (dated 1982-83, mea­suring 300 x 750 cm) to the Picasso Museum. However, nine large engrav­ings from the artist’s port­folio of Sabra & Chatila (dated 1983, each print mea­suring 100 x 70 cm) will be exhib­ited in Barcelona. These prints were based on the text We are not seen but Corpses by the French writer Jean Genet, who had vis­ited the camps the day after the mas­sacres.

Translated from French by Valérie Hess

Museu Picasso, Barcelona - POST-PICASSO: Contemporary Reactions

 Date: 8th March 2014 to 29th June 2014
 Vernissage and press con­fer­ence: 7th March 2014

 Curator: Michael FitzGerald
 Organisation and pro­duc­tion: Museu Picasso, Barcelona

 This is the first exhi­bi­tion ded­i­cated to tracing the impact of Picasso on inter­na­tional con­tem­po­rary art. Curated by renowned expert Michael FitzGerald, the show will explore the con­sid­er­able influ­ence of Picasso’s oeuvre on the art of today.

 Dr. FitzGerald, Professor of Fine Arts, Trinity College (USA), has devel­oped Post-Picasso during the years since he curated Picasso and American Art for the Whitney Museum of American Art (2006-07). Post-Picasso will build on the sub­stan­tial research of that exhi­bi­tion to treat the chrono­log­ical period from the decade before Picasso’s death in 1973 to the pre­sent.

 One of the most sur­prising upshots of the exhi­bi­tion will be the evi­dence of Picasso’s impor­tance for the art of the twenty-first cen­tury. The show will reveal how Picasso’s art and rep­u­ta­tion con­tinue to gen­erate a fruitful dia­logue with con­tem­po­rary artists around the world, par­tic­u­larly his rep­u­ta­tion as a paradigm of mod­ernism, the issues of cul­tural hege­mony gal­vanised by his intro­duc­tion of non-Western sources into European art, and the debates over the posi­tion of painting and sculp­ture in con­tem­po­rary prac­tice. Similarly, the show will explore the impact of Picasso on artists working in a wide range of media, including video and pho­tog­raphy, as well as painting and sculp­ture.

 Post-Picasso will be devoted to a select group of artists who have made very sig­nif­i­cant achieve­ments in con­tem­po­rary art through their engage­ment with Picasso. The exhi­bi­tion will com­prise 75 works selected from the oeu­vres of approx­i­mately 42 artists living in more than 12 coun­tries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America to pre­sent the remark­able geo­graph­ical and chrono­log­ical range of Picasso’s impact.

 The exhi­bi­tion will not include works by Picasso. The museum’s premier col­lec­tion of his art will be on view in the per­ma­nent gal­leries to create a dia­logue between the work of con­tem­po­rary artists and Picasso.