Picasso returns to Milan from 18 October, at Palazzo Reale, with a new exhibition entitled Picasso Metamorphosis, curated by Pascale Picard, and marks the start of the autumn season in Milan.
The Milanese stop is part of the Picasso-Méditerranée triennial European exhibition promoted by the Musée Picasso in Paris together with other international art institutions. The exhibition presents around 200 works including works by Picasso and works of ancient art which the great master was inspired by and which come from the most important international museums: Musée National Picasso in Paris, Musée du Louvre in Paris, Vatican Museums in Rome, Museo National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Musée Picasso in Antibes, Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, Center Pompidou in Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris, Museu Picasso in Barcelona.
The project is an integral part of an in-depth study on the artist advanced by Palazzo Reale over the decades, a real cycle of exhibitions on Picasso that made the relationship between the Spanish master and the city of Milan special. First of all, the Guernica exhibition in the Sala delle Cariatidi in 1953, an exceptional event and an authentic gift that Picasso gave to the city; almost half a century later, a major anthology followed in September 2001, four days after the attacks on the Twin Towers, organized with the collaboration of the artist's heirs; finally, the monographic review of 2012, which documented in a large chronological excursus the variety of techniques and means of expression that characterized the production of the Spanish artist.
With Picasso Metamorphosis, on the other hand, antiquity in its various forms will be investigated and declined in the mythologies reinvented by the Spanish artist and presented in the six sections of the exhibition with the works of the great artist juxtaposed with those of ancient art - ceramics, vases, statues, votive plaques, reliefs, idols, steles – which inspired and profoundly influenced him. The exhibition proposes to penetrate the intimate laboratory of a world artist in the light of the ancient sources that inspired his work, but also to reveal the mechanisms of a singular alchemy that places Antiquity at the heart of a decisive modernity for art of the XNUMXth century.
