2023-12-23 11:00:52
In the year that will leave us in a few days, the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death has been commemorated with around fifty exhibitions around the world. His creativity has been reviewed from the most varied points of view imaginable. But what about the man who lived with the artist? And the friend, the lover, the husband, the father? A clown company, Rhum & Cia, has taken care of this, which has joined the ephemeris of motu proprio. That is, on the periphery. He does it from the circus, a world that the painter visited with special dedication throughout his life and not only in the pink period.
From the hand of the playwright and director of Teatro Circo Price in Madrid, María Folguera, Rhum & Cia unearths Picasso in a slice of life – allow me to say it in the language of the country that made him grow up and where he died – about some of the loving and friendly relationships, showing us a human profile much less favored than the artistic one. Picasso (Jordi Martínez) is resurrected from an old trunk thanks to the ghost of the circus chronicler Ramón Gómez de la Serna (Joan Arqué) and meets Guillaume Apollinaire (magnificent Piero Steiner), with Olga Khokhlova, with Marie Thérèse (fantastic Queralt Albinyana ), with Dora Maar, the minotaur… The encounters take place in a series of paintings linked by musical fragments and the increasingly incredible sound skills of luthier and multi-instrumentalist Xavi Lozano.
Picasso, king, monster and pallaso it is not and does not pretend to be one biopic, but rather three or four brushstrokes on the life of the great painter. They are brushstrokes to dress the Picasso man in the hand of six clowns and a clown, all very well directed. It is the drawing of an individualistic man, short-tempered, capricious, selfish and cruel, able to ignore the hunger of his lover. Yes, a poor image of Picasso softened only by the delicate direction of Joan Arqué with the playful envelope of music and jokes of the clowns. Picasso clown?; projected in his paintings. King?… by the grace of the market. monster? Just a bad man. Highly recommended.
#strokes #bad #man