PICASSO PICABIA exhibition at Musee Granet Aix-en-Provence

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PICASSO – PICABIA, the exhibition that eventually made me aspire a visit to Aix-en-Provence. As part of the Picasso Méditerranée wandering exhibition, I finally wanted to see multiple works of Picasso. The addition of the works by Francis Picabia just enhanced my wish to see this exhibition, before it moves further. Read on to find out in which another European city the paintings are displayed next.

The first exhibition to compare their work, Picasso-Picabia offers an insight into an artistic tandem unprecedented in the history of 20th-century painting. Exploring fifty years of rich, diverse and uninterrupted artistic production, it features both masterpieces and sometimes lesser-known works by these two artists of Spanish heritage. Presented in an 800 sq.m. temporary exhibition space, some 110 works by these two artists echo but also occasionally clash and combine with each other.

This history of painting, strewn with conflict and rivalry, but also unsettling similarities shed light on the founding pictorial practices and movements of Modernity: Cubism and Orphism, Dada machines and Ingresque Classicism, the mid-1920s “monster Surrealism” in the South of France, portraits of women in the 1930s, and the vital role played by photography in their work.
Enjoying the same artistic freedom, Picasso could well have said – as Picabia did of himself – that he was an “artist in all genres”, and both men changed the face of painting in the 20th century.

This exhibition forms part of Picasso Méditerranée, an international cultural event that runs from spring 2017 to spring 2019. More than sixty institutions have come together to create a program around Pablo Picasso’s stubbornly Mediterranean work. On the initiative of the Musée National Picasso-Paris, this journey in the creation of the artist and in the places that inspired him offers an unprecedented cultural experience, wishing to tighten the links between all the banks. *

This exhibition will be presented at Fundación Mapfre, Barcelona, Spain, from October 11, 2018, to January 13, 2019.

 

OPENING HOURS
09 June to 23 September 2018: from Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m to 7 p.m.

ADMISSION
Full admission: €10 Reduced admission: €8 Free under 18s, students under 26 & with Aix en Provence City Pass

Pictures of my visit to PICASSO PICABIA exhibition at Musee Granet, Aix-en-Provence

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PABLO PICASSO elements d'étude pour "portrait de jeune fille": ampoules
PABLO PICASSO elements d’étude pour “portrait de jeune fille”: ampoules
PABLO PICASSO Femme à la mantille (Fatma), 1917
PABLO PICASSO Femme à la mantille (Fatma), 1917
PABLO PICASSO Femme à la mantille (Fatma), 1917
PABLO PICASSO Femme à la mantille (Fatma), 1917
FRANCIS PICABIA chariot
FRANCIS PICABIA chariot

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PABLO PICASSO
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Musee Granet Aix en Provence

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