© Sucesión Picasso, VEGAP, Madrid, 2023
The Picasso Celebration 1973-2023, an initiative promoted by the governments of Spain and France to pay tribute to the Malaga-born artist on the 50th anniversary of his death, opens the second of seven exhibitions scheduled in the United States. The Mint Museum in Charlotte (North Carolina) invites the public to analyse Pablo Picasso's commitment to the genre of landscape in the exhibition "Picasso's Landscapes: Outside the Boundary", which will be on view from 11 February to 25 May.
The exhibition explores Picasso's engagement with the genre of landscape from his early student days to the year before his death and then, after its run at The Mint, will travel to the Cincinnati Art Museum in Ohio, where it will be on view from 24 June to 11 October.
Organised by the American Federation of Arts with guest curator Laurence Madeline, the exhibition is a selection of forty paintings and sculptures that explores Picasso's creative evolution in the genre of landscape, with acute attention to the changing cultural backdrop of the twentieth century.
The project will show how landscape was the catalyst for his formal experimentation, even in early Cubism. A genre on which to turn investigations into urban modernity, as well as an attractive backdrop for elegiac scenes and a site for sculptural intervention. A space that becomes an interface between humanity and nature, and constitutes the artist's personal retreat, but also a place of resistance and escape.
Through this journey through the landscapes of the famous Malaga painter it is possible to reclaim the prominence of the genre in his work, a reflection of the changing symbolic function of landscape in 20th-century painting.
The exhibition is part of the Picasso Celebration 1973-2023 programme, with more than fifty exhibitions and events, which will commemorate the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso's death throughout 2023 in renowned cultural institutions in Europe and the United States.
The United States pays tribute to Picasso with seven exhibitions as part of the Picasso Celebration 1973-2023 initiative: "Cubism and the Trompe-l'oeil Tradition", on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York from October to January; the exhibition "Picasso's Landscapes: Off the Edge", on view at The Mint Museum from February to May, and at the Cincinnati Art Museum from June to October; "The Young Picasso in Paris" (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York); "The Young Picasso in Paris" (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York); "Picasso's Landscape", on view at The Mint Museum from February to May, and at the Cincinnati Art Museum from June to October. Guggenheim Museum, New York, May-August).
Between July and September there will be another Picasso exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, the title of which is yet to be defined, while in the autumn "Picasso and La Celestina" will open at the Hispanic Society of America in New York and from September to January 2024 "Picasso's Paintings for Hamilton Easter Field" will be on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.