Picasso. Metamorphosis of the figure

For Picasso, the art that inspired his work, that moved his creative mind in an unstoppable desire to break new ground, was not ‘primitive’. There is no ‘before’ or ‘after’ in art, there is no ‘other’ or ‘different’ art: Picasso conceived art as a timeless Whole. “There is neither past nor future in art. – he loved to emphasise – If a work of art cannot always live in the present, it has no meaning”. Pablo Picasso always showed profound respect for the artistic manifestations of other cultures and times. More than any artist of his generation, he had the ability to understand and reinvent these artistic expressions with the noble aim of giving impulse and a new path of exploration to universal art.

The great exhibition “Picasso. Metamorphosis of the figure” organised by 24 ORE Cultura – Gruppo 24 ORE and promoted by the Municipality of Milan – Culture Department, with the contribution of Deloitte Foundation, the Institutional Partner, and with the patronage of the Embassy of Spain in Italy, retraces the entire career of Picasso – from his early works to the later ones – in light of his love for ‘primitive’ artistic sources, for ‘primitive art’, describing this constant intellectual reworking and the artistic legacy of his vision through a major exhibition project hosting over forty works by the Spanish master, including paintings, sculptures and 26 drawings and sketches of preparatory studies from the extremely precious Notebook No. 7, which was loaned for the exhibition by the Pablo Ruiz Picasso Foundation – Casa Natal Museum in Malaga.

As a matter of fact, in this absolutely peculiar and unprecedented journey, the exhibition enjoyed the fundamental support of all the main Spanish museums that are preserving Picasso’s most important collections in his homeland, Spain: first and foremost the Casa Natal Museum in Malaga, but also the Picasso Museum in Barcelona, and the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, as well as several private collectors.