The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, in close collaboration with the Musée national Picasso-Paris, are devoting a unique exhibition to Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) next fall. The two institutions are decrypting a theme that has never been explored before: for the very first time, Picasso's relationship with abstraction will be brought to light, through more than one hundred and forty exceptional works.
The exhibition will address the major stages that marked the links between Picasso's work and the history of abstract art, from the first Cubist experiments of 1907, carried out on the fringes of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, to his later work, which is sometimes situated on the borders of action painting. This surprising relationship, made up of small advances, retreats and backward steps, will be presented in the subtle chronological and thematic course of the exhibition, revealing the artist's pendulum movement between abstraction and the figurative over the decades.
Another major theme of the exhibition will be the artist's studio, a true formal laboratory, and will show Picasso's creative process through various series (drawings and prints), allowing the viewer to understand how he works and reflects on the representation of the chosen motifs. The studio, which is both a place of creation and a setting for the work, is also the space where the painter's imagination is realised, allowing a glimpse of the ambiguity between reality and fiction.
The viewer will not only be invited to appreciate Pablo Picasso's extraordinary creativity and his ability to constantly reinvent himself, but also to measure, through his work, how impulses towards the unknown remain an excellent way of getting to know oneself better and of freeing oneself from the limiting labels.
EXCEPTIONAL HOURS !
The exhibition is open Monday to Friday from 10 am to 5 pm, and on weekends from 11 am to 6 pm. We strongly advise you to book your ticket online to avoid queuing.
Picasso & Abstraction
Exhibition
14.10.2022 > 12.02.2023
On the cover: Pablo Picasso, Violin and Music Sheet, Paris, Fall 1912
Colored laid papers, white wove paper printed with musical score and brown wove wrapping paper cut and glued to cardboard, 78 × 63.5 cm.
Musée national Picasso-Paris, inv. MP368, acceptance in lieu in 1979
© Succession Picasso / © RMN-Grand Palais (MnP-Paris) / photo: Adrien Didierjean
Source: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
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