Galerie Claude Lemand

Le Musée Picasso de Barcelone a pro­grammé une expo­si­tion his­to­ri­que et uni­ver­selle : POST-PICASSO. Réactions contem­po­rai­nes (7 mars - 29 juin 2014), avec 75 oeu­vres (de 1963 à 2013), de 42 artis­tes (ayant réussi un grand dia­lo­gue avec l’oeuvre de Picasso), de 12 pays de tous les conti­nents.

L’artiste ira­kien de Londres Dia Al-Azzawi est invité à y pati­ci­per. La Tate Modern s’étant excu­sée de ne pou­voir prêter son fameux polyp­ty­que Sabra & Chatila (1982-83, 300 x 750 cm), l’artiste expo­sera les 9 gran­des estam­pes de son Portfolio Sabra & Chatila (1983, 100 x 70 cm), accom­pa­gnées de Nous ne voyons que des cada­vres, texte de Jean Genet, qui avait visité les camps pales­ti­niens le len­de­main même du mas­sa­cre.

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.