8 April marks the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso (Málaga, 1881-Mougins, France, 1973), an anniversary that will be celebrated with a multitude of exhibitions. But while one part of the world prepares to celebrate the work of the great colossus of modern art, the other, that of the MeeToo, grabs the man by the breast and puts his broken figure at the centre of the debate on machismo and violence against women. The Picasso Celebration, organised between the Spanish and French governments, has programmed fifty exhibitions, some of them ongoing or already closed, like the one that has just closed its doors at the Museu Picasso on the art dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (more than 120,000 visitors), but the party has only just begun. Carlos Alberdi (Madrid, 1956), commissioner of the Picasso Year in place of José Guirao, who died last July, makes a positive assessment of these first months, is confident that the celebration will serve to make his work known in Spain "beyond his most recognisable icon: the dove of peace" and regrets that people want to present him as "an evil man in a book". "We have to understand him for what he was: a man of the late 19th century", he says.
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