Picasso: Memory and Desire

Picasso: Memory and Desire – A Deep Dive into Modern Art!

Immerse yourself in a captivating exhibition exploring Pablo Picasso’s pivotal years! “Picasso: Memory and Desire” transports visitors to the intense European dialectic of the 1920s and 1930s. This exhibition shows how memory, or the past, is reactivated through the demands of desire, or the will to live.

The Complex Dialogue of Picasso

This exhibition challenges concepts like the ‘return to order’ and ‘modern classicism.’ Instead, Picasso proposed the sum of different periods in a single present.

• Key Work: The exhibition articulates around Studio with Plaster Head (1925), which uniquely expresses this historical situation.
• Theme: The dynamic relationship between memory and desire fuels the continuous flow of interactions.
• Influence: Discover how Picasso’s revelatory icons influenced contemporary artists. For instance, you will see works by Salvador Dalí, Jean Cocteau, Man Ray, and René Magritte.
• Special Feature: The exhibition includes an installation featuring a voice-over narration of fragments from Balzac’s Le chef-d’oeuvre inconnu (The unknown masterpiece).