The main museums in the country will host exhibitions on the painter during the last quarter of 2022 and in 2023
The acts of commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the death of Picasso begin to take shape. During the last quarter of 2022 and in 2023, the main museums in Spain and France will host exhibitions to remember the painter from Malaga, who died in the Gallic municipality of Mougins on April 8, 1973.
The Executive Commission of the National Commission for the Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso, made up of representatives of the Spanish and French governments, held its second meeting this Thursday, the first of Carlos Alberdi as commissioner after the death of former Minister José Guirao, and agreed to hold 40 exhibitions, fifteen of which will take place in Spain, and the rest in France and also in North America.
The Museu Picasso Barcelona, the Museo Picasso Málaga, the Museo Casa Natal Picasso, also in Málaga, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, the Museo Nacional del Prado, the Museo de Belas Artes da Coruña, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the Museu del Disseny de Barcelona, the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando de Madrid, the Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; the Mapfre Foundation, Madrid; La Casa Encendida, Madrid and the Cine Doré of the Spanish Film Library will host the shows over the next few months.
In addition, Malaga, La Coruña, Madrid and Barcelona, cities linked especially to the artist, will offer programs to disseminate the painter’s works, and two academic congresses will also be organized, an “essential meeting point for scientific exchanges between researchers and experts in work of the artist and an opportunity to develop a historiographical study of the work of Picasso”, details the Ministry of Culture, which this Thursday has presented the logo of the event.