© Sucesión Picasso, VEGAP, Madrid, 2023.
The Reina Sofia Museum will be present this year at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz on Thursday, September 7, the day dedicated to Spain, with two emblematic works from its Collection in the Deep Space 8k room of the Ars Electronica Center. This space consists of a projection area of 16 x 9 meters, with high image and sound quality, providing a unique immersive experience.
On the occasion of the year "Picasso Celebration" and to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the death of Ángeles Santos, will be shown Woman in Blue (1901) by Pablo Picasso (Málaga 1881- Mougins 1973) and A World (1929) by Ángeles Santos (Portbou 1911- Madrid 2013). Both works will be presented by Olga Sevillano, head of Digital Projects at the Museo Reina Sofía, and Raúl Martínez, curator of painting and drawing until 1939, in the lecture "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (and as a Young Woman Too)".
The gigapixel technology, which allows an exhaustive analysis of all the details of the works thanks to a high-definition zoom, will allow the festival audience to explore every brushstroke of Santos' and Picasso's works. In addition, the context of these masterpieces, created by two young artists under the age of 20, will be revealed. A comparative analysis will show two unique lives, between the fame of Picasso and the near anonymity of Santos, and how the genre played a crucial role in their artistic careers.
Ars Electronica is the most important cultural institution dedicated to art, technology and society in Austria, with great international recognition since its foundation. Thanks to the collaboration of the Reina Sofia Museum and the Spanish Embassy in Vienna with the festival in 2021, it was possible to present, for the first time in this European country, the project "Rethinking Guernica" in the Deep Space 8k room. An event that, like this year's, is part of Ars Electronica's initiative to reach agreements with renowned museums and art galleries to show the public some of the most outstanding works of art history.