PICASSO
Metamorphosis of the figure
Until June 20th, 2024
Milan, Mudec (Museum of Cultures)
The exhibition was opened on February 22nd, and it is curated by Malén Gual (Picasso Museum in Barcelona) and Ricardo Ostalé. It is a journey around the long and entire career of Picasso from 1906 till 1960s. There are over forty works of art by the Spanish master, paintings, sculptures, including 26 drawings and sketches of preparatory studies contained in the precious workbook “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” exceptionally on loan from the Casa Natal Museum in Málaga.
Pablo Picasso conceived art as a timeless. “There is neither past nor future in art. – he loved to emphasise – If a work of art cannot always live in the present, it has no meaning”. 
He grasped the essence and meaning of other artistic sources, from African, or Neolithic and Proto-Iberian examples (from pre-Roman Spain), to Oceanic or ancient Egyptian art and of course classical Greece (black-figure vases). He introduced a new language to reshape figures with disproportionate volumes, generating a constant metamorphosis of figures which guided the evolution of his painting and sculpture.
The exhibition has been made possible by the fundamental support of all the main Spanish museums that are preserving Picasso’s most important collections in his homeland, Spain: first and foremost, the Casa Natal Museum in Málaga, but also the Picasso Museum in Barcelona, and the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, as well as several private collectors.
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