Louise Bourgeois and German art: protagonists of the Picasso Malaga Museum in 2015

For the first time, a collective exhibition will be carried put as a result of an investigation dealing with the Picasso career in relation to the German art in fall and winter.

A retrospective about Louise Bourgeois (Paris, 1911 - New York, 2010) and a collective exhibition about the main links, affiliations and differences between the career of Pablo Picasso (Málaga, 1881 - Mougins, France, 1973) and the German art, will be the two main themes of the exhibition program of the Malaga Picasso Museum in 2015.

The first one, which will open in mid-June and will be extended until the end of September, will include more than a hundred articles - 47 sculptures, 1 cell and 54 works on paper and textiles-covering the entirety of the artist's career from 1930 to 2009.

Some of these works never have been exposed to the public previously.

This comprehensive retrospective, which will cover low and high floors, is co-produced by the Malaga Picasso Museum and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, whose curator of international art, Iris Müller-Westermann, has been in charge of the guardianship. The last major exhibition dedicated to Bourgeois in our country took place in 2012, at La Casa Encendida in Madrid. After its closure, in mid-October, "Picasso; Registros alemanes" or Picasso, German records will come and show for the first time the result of an investigation dealing with the Pablo Picasso career and the German art.

Georg Baselitz, Max Beckmann, Lucas Cranach the old man, Lucas Cranach, el Joven, Otto Dix, Max Ernst, Hannah Höch, Wassily Kandinsky and Martin Kippenberger, among others, will be represented through an exhibition, which under guardianship of José Lebrero Stals, director of the Malaga Picasso Museum, composed of more than two hundred works, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, graphic works and documentary material.

This collective exhibition, which will also occupy the low and high floors, it will provide a new perspective on the work of this great artist and thanks to collectors and German dealers such as Justin K. Thannhauser, D.H. Kahnweiler, Wilhelm Uhde, Alfred Flechtheim, or Otto Feldmann, it became well-known and studied in Germany as well as that of his Cubist time to take part of the most important German collections.

But, before these two outstanding exhibitions take place, the exhibition year opens will open in February, with the exhibition “Movimiento y secuencia. Colección permanente", or Movement and Sequence; a permanent collection, a dialogue of Picasso's work with the of contemporaries his as Braque, Gris, Matisse and Miró.

This exhibition, also under guardianship of José Lebrero Stals, is the result of a study on the funds of drawings of the MPM that shows "the manner in which division of image and the implementation of multiple points of view -both linked to Cubism- provided some revolutionary dynamism to the work of art ", explains the issued note.

Source: arteinformado