©Sucesión Picasso, VEGAP, Madrid, 2023
Everyday from 10:00 to 19:00
Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique
14.10.2022 - 12.02.2023
The Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts of Belgium deciphers for the first time Pablo Picasso's relationship with abstraction, through more than one hundred and twenty exceptional works. The exhibition Picasso and Abstraction addresses the main stages between Picasso's work and the history of abstract art, from the first cubist experiments of 1907 to his late work, sometimes situated on the limits of gestural painting.
This surprising relationship is presented in a subtle chronological and thematic journey, revealing the artist's pendulum swing between abstraction and figuration over the decades. The exhibition also presents the artist's studio as an authentic laboratory to show the creative process through a series of drawings and engravings that allow us to understand the selection of motifs. The studio, which is both a place of creation and a stage for the work, is also the space where the painter's imagination materializes, revealing the ambiguity between reality and fiction.
The exhibition has been organized in collaboration with the Musée national Picasso-Paris and the support of the Loteria Nacional, the Spanish Embassy in Belgium, Spain Arts & Culture and the Instituto Cervantes.
The exhibition is part of the project called Celebration Picasso 1973-2023, a program of more than fifty exhibitions and events commemorating the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso's death, which will take place between 2022 and throughout 2023 at renowned cultural institutions in Europe and the United States.