The exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of Picasso's death at the Reina Sofia, curated by UMA professor Eugenio Carmona, exceeds all expectations. The absence of Malaga's political and university authorities at the opening of the exhibition organized by France and Spain and directed by a Malaga native was a surprise... I come from paradise', the memoirs of Antonio Salcedo.
It is a luxury. The great exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of Picasso's death, organized by France and Spain and inaugurated by the King and Queen of Spain in November at the Reina Sofia, is breaking all records. The exhibition, curated by that luxury called Eugenio Carmona Mato, professor at the UMA, native, self-confessed and militant Malagueño, is a spectacle, a real gem, and having the opportunity to see it with Carmona himself is a luxury worthy of envy. Picasso 1906, the great transformation'.
That is the title, and it has been chosen because it is the year in which the genius changes, and where he begins his path to become a myth and legend of art. Pablo is until 1905 one, and Picasso is born, somehow, in 1906. Fernand Olivier, his first great love and his first muse, will be much to blame, but also his great intelligence. Picasso began to be a sponge, to absorb influences from all kinds of art: Iberian, Roman, African, Andalusian.... And he poured it all into his works.
He breaks with styles and with stylisms, and he does it also with his peculiar way of understanding life, as a "malagueño de la calle", of postín and castizo, because yes, Picasso was a "malagueño castizo", and it is necessary to understand the symbiosis of both terms.
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