PICASSO SCULPTOR. MATTER AND BODY

 
9 MAY–10 SEPTEMBER 2023
 
MUSEO PICASSO MÁLAGA | MÁLAGA, SPAIN
 
Figure (Project for the monument to Guillaume Apollinaire) Paris, autumn 1928
Iron wire and sheet metal 59.9 × 13 × 32 cm
Musée national Picasso-Paris. Dation Pablo Picasso, 1997 MP265
© RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris)/Adrien Didierjean
© Succession Pablo Picasso, VEGAP, Madrid, 2023
 

The body, both as an instrument and as the ultimate goal of representation, is the cornerstone of the first major exhibition to focus on Picasso’s sculpture in Spain.

Curated by Carmen Giménez, Museo Picasso Málaga’s first director, the exhibition will include a selection of sculptures illustrating the diversity of styles used by Picasso to explore and broaden three-dimensional representations of the human body.

Throughout his whole career, Picasso was concerned with breaking down the human body into a variety of formats and genres, using all the materials at his disposal for his sculptures: wood, bronze, iron, cement, steel and plaster. In his view, sculpture was as important as painting, drawing, printmaking or ceramics, and every material enabled him to express the different aspects of his creation. Although his sculptural practice became more evident and prolific during his Cubist period, Picasso produced sculptures from the very beginning of his extensive artistic career and devoted himself to this plastic language throughout his life.