Pablo Picasso. The places and rites of the myth

On display there are about 300 works, with paintings, drawings, ceramics, incisions and photographs by great artists, such as Capa, Cartier-Bresson, List, Burri, Newman and Mili. It is a thread that connects imaginary dots on Picasso’s Mediterranean: from the early paintings made in Malaga and Barcelona to the later ones, at the beginning of the 1900s, to some drawings – like the “Saltimbanco/Saltimbanque”, 1923 – made under the influence of the “Italian journey” of 1917, to the paintings of Antibes soon after the end of the second World War, to a wide range of ceramics made in Vallauris from 1947 to 1969.
The exhibition goes through some of the moments that characterized the career of this great artist of the 20th Century: figures and themes linked by a fil rouge/red thread strongly influenced by the vividness of the Mediterranean sea. According to the idea of the curators Massimo Bignardi, Maria LluÔsa Borràs and Luigi Fiorletta, the exhibition develops within a subtle relationship between history and contemporaneity, among the signs of the Greek civilization, the main essence of the Mediterranean imaginative basis, and the powers that lit the creativity of the main interpreter of “modernism”.