Picasso Museum-Eugenio Arias Collection. History of activities

Workshops for families "7 workshops + 1 with Picasso"

Saturdays. January 28 - November 18

New cycle of workshops in which adults and children approach the figure and work of Pablo Picasso in a playful and fun way.

From a chosen work of the painter, we discover his artistic concerns and we can follow his creative steps to make our own work of art, experimenting with various techniques, styles and materials that Picasso used. The workshops have an activity notebook in digital format that includes works developed therein.

• Picasso, paper sculptor". January 28. Approach to sculpture in which children learn to create their own work from materials such as cut sheet metal and paints

• "Cubist Carnival". February 4. Fun workshop to celebrate the carnival in the purest Picasso style, in which we learn about the different stages of the artist through analysis and debate.

• "Picasso's bestiary". April 1st. In this workshop we discover Picasso's favorite animals and we delve into two techniques that the artist worked on throughout his life: stamping and drawing.

• "Picasso and the theater". June 10th. Starting from the costumes and scenography that Picasso made for Sergei Diaguilev's ballets, we get to know closely the different facets involved in a stage work, for which each participant creates their own stage with curtains, sets and characters.

• “Picasso in puppets”. September 9. Taking as a model the puppet theater of the artist Paul Klee, together with all the attendees we created a series of cardboard puppets based on characters taken from paintings by Picasso. 

• Workshop “Picasso and the collage". October 28. Picasso and his friend George Braque were the inventors of the technique of gluing, a technique that we practice in this workshop using materials and “found objects” such as ropes, fabrics, magazines or wallpaper.

• “Picasso and ceramics” workshop. November 18.
  Workshop in which we approach the study of Picasso's ceramics and in which we carry out small practices that teach us how to model figures in the purest style of the Malaga creator.

 

Mediated visits "Arias-Picasso"

Saturdays. February 11 - November 18

Once again, we have a mediation program so that the public can get to know the collection up close and interpret it from a new, more creative and participatory perspective.

Under the title of “Arias-Picasso”, in these visits we delve into the museum's collections to delve into some of the moments that Eugenio Arias and Pablo Picasso shared and in all those issues that united them, revealing how much of one and the other were reflected in the museum's works and in the photographs shown during the activity.

 

Micro-exhibition "Another museum, another Picasso"

February 16 - April 11

Very special micro-exhibition, fruit of the work of the members of the plastic arts workshops of the Juan Ramón Jiménez and Aluche Occupational Centers, in Madrid.

The Museum's collections have been a source of inspiration for the production of the works made by the users of these workshops. Some works that have given rise to an exhibition in which the quality of these works can be appreciated and undoubtedly enriches the public's view of the collection of the Picasso Museum – Eugenio Arias Collection.

 

Concert "Flamenco brushstrokes". Tribute to Picasso

Saturday March 4

We commemorate both the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso's death and the founding of the museum itself on March 5, 1985 with a concert that pays tribute to the Andalusian roots of the Malaga genius.

Picasso was one of the leading personalities in Spanish culture and, therefore, numerous flamenco artists have been attracted by his overflowing creativity and career, dedicating compositions and themes to the artist. In this concert, with a Picasso spirit, guitarist Óscar Herrero remembers the figure of the artist in quartet format, a flamenco painting, surrounded by song and dance.

 

Picassian marathon: 50 years, 5 hours with Picasso

Saturday April 8

We commemorate the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso's death throughout the day (April 8) with the Picasso marathon "50 years, 5 hours with Picasso", made up of fragments of eight shows and activities carried out in tribute to the Malaga artist and , some of which have been designed specifically for this Madrid museum.

Music, circus, dance... have a place in this marathon that has very special presenters for the occasion: Pablo Picasso and Eugenio Arias, in the form of puppets, who introduce each show and tell us anecdotes and curiosities about the friendship between the two, germ of the collection housed in the museum.

 

Exhibition "Picasso by the great masters: from Cecil Beaton to Irving Penn"

April 13 - June 25

Tour of the 20th century photographers who played a decisive role in the construction of the Picasso myth.

Pablo Picasso embodied the ideal of the modern artist, becoming a universal icon of modern culture with the complicity of photography. He knew the communication power of the image and very soon understood its importance in the transformation of a public image, as well as its ability to feed the cult of the artist's personality. Picasso was not only one of the most photographed artists of the XNUMXth century, but surely one of the most charismatic and photogenic people in history.

In this sense, the exhibition invites you to get closer to the artist, his ways of thinking and working, and many crucial moments in his artistic and personal life in his more than 70-year career, through 65 photographs of key masters in history. of photography. Present in the exhibition are snapshots of greats such as Man Ray, Cecil Beaton, Robert Capa, Willy Rizzo, Gjon Mili, David Seymour, Michel Sima, David Douglas Duncan and Irving Penn.

The exhibition's journey begins with a young 26-year-old Picasso in the artistic Montmartre neighborhood of Paris, the world capital of art at the time in which he had settled in 1904, to the 86-year-old Picasso in Mougins, in the South of France, an area to which he moved at the end of the 40s, and where he appears photographed in this exhibition repeatedly. We also find snapshots with his first wife Olga Khokhlova in Paris, with her lover Dora Maar and her Afghan dog on the beach, with his muse Sylvette, with Françoise Gilot, or dancing with his second wife Jacqueline Roque. Images also from his Paris studios on rue Boetie or rue de Grands Agustins to his different residences in the South of France: the Grimaldi castle in Antibes, the Villa La Galloise in Vallauris where he discovered ceramics, or the famous Villa La California.

 

Exhibition "Mutations 2023. Baroque tactics" 

April 14 - July 16

The program is a contemporary reinterpretation of these historical places and their collections in order to facilitate the public's approach to new creative forms. The artists selected to intervene in the Museum during these months are:

Victor Santamarina presents one of the molds, mod II, which represents the brushstroke of The sense of sight (ca. 1616), a work done in collaboration between Rubens and Brueghel, the elder. With these plasters, a game is created that produces confusion between sculpture and painting, between the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional, between the flat and the volumetric, between what can be seen and what should be touchable.

For its part, Elena Alonso presents a part of Whim by Elena Alonso, produced for the exhibition want to look like night in the CA2M Museum. This work was built like an arch from plaster and sand molds in which his production of the last ten years was summarized and which also alluded to his referents. Now separated, transformed into a promise of ruin, these moulds, which were previously the voussoirs on which the arch was supported, take on a new dimension and remind us of pieces of bodies, fragments of genderless torsos that with this new arrangement reach another corporeality.

 

Museum Day. Picasso footbridge

Saturday May 20

We celebrate Museum Day with “Pasarela Picasso”, a fun activity that combines art, history and fashion.

A journey through the life and times of the Malaga artist, from his birth in 1881 to his death in 1973, told in 12 acts: the 12 most important events in Picasso's career, within their historical context, among which His friendship with Eugenio Arias may be missing. An activity in which the public can learn about almost a century of history, while enjoying a fashion show with garments from each of the eras narrated.

 

Children's workshops “As a family with Picasso and me with these hairs. A summer with friends”

July 23 - August 12

Four different workshops (for families with children from 5 to 12 years old), four trips to the creative universe and the personality of Picasso through his family, his homes and his friends in which we will put into practice techniques used by the artist such as ceramics, assembly or drawing.

• “Hairs in the wind. Traveling with friends." Saturday July 22. Workshop to delve into the more social facet of Picasso in which Eugenio Arias helps us get to know the man behind the myth and we discover the assemblage technique, with which we create portraits of his friends from found materials.

• “My family, very pretty”. Saturday July 29. An emotional journey to the depths of Picasso's family relationships, in which we use color to transport our most precious memories in a fun cubist-style prism.

• “Treasures and emotions”. Saturday August 5th. We discover Picasso's different houses and his creation rooms to represent spaces from photographs that we animate with puppets and models pop-up from which we know the creative process of the artist.

• "Tame Bestiary". Saturday August 12. We imagine a Noah's Ark created by Picasso, which contains all the animal species that he reflected in his works and with which he had a special relationship. A multicolored zoo of bulls or birds from which we model our own animal in clay. “The look in your hands” show.

 

Show “The look in your hands”

Saturday 21 October

Picasso's birth is celebrated (October 25, 1881) with the show “The Look in Your Hands,” an exciting journey through the language of theater and dance through the artist's most notable artistic stages. A man and a woman remember, in an already dusty studio, from Picasso's first children's and youth works to the creation of the mythical Guernica.

“The Look in Your Hands” is an inclusive show in which artists with and without functional diversity participate, working on a language that fuses contemporary dance, theater, new circus, audiovisuals and live music.

 

Concert "Picasso. 50 years without his gaze"

Saturday December 23

The cycle of activities commemorating the 50th anniversary of Picasso's death closes with a special Christmas concert, dedicated to the artist.

Under the title “Picasso. 50 years without his gaze. Paint, close your eyes and sing”, the recital recalls the time in which Picasso coincided with contemporary composers, such as Manuel de Falla, Erik Satie, Frederic Mompou or Claude Debussy, through a tour of both Spanish and French musical pieces.

In charge of

• Ana María Castillo Alonso (soprano)

• Matthew Crawford (piano)

Workshops for families "7 workshops + 1 with Picasso"

Saturdays, from January 22 to December 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• "The cubist look". January 22. Approach to cubism creating our own portrait combining collage, tempera and drawing.

• "Picasso and the classical myths". February 5. With classic mythological characters: the faun, the centaur and the minotaur, children create their own work using the printing technique.

• "Picasso in the puppets". April 30. We create our cardboard puppets, based on characters taken from Pablo Picasso's paintings.

• "The painter and his models". June 11. We analyze works in which Picasso represented himself together with his models, and in our space converted into an artist's studio, we made our painting with tempera, canvas and brush.

• "Picasso and the pigeons". September 10. With the stamping we make our own bookplate from the dove in Picasso's work that symbolizes peace, freedom and free flight.

• "Guernica". October 29. Children investigate and discover, from the game, what the paintings hide and that adults sometimes perceive in a preconceived way.

• "Picasso's guitars". December 3. We build cardboard guitars from Picasso's paintings in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and we approach the artist's relationship with the music of his time.

 

Mediated visits "Arias-Picasso"

From February 12 to November 19

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As in previous years, the mediation program continues in 2022 in which the public can get to know the collection up close and interpret it from a new, more creative and participatory perspective.

Under the title of “Arias-Picasso”, in these visits we delve into the museum's collections to delve into some of the moments that Eugenio Arias and Pablo Picasso shared and in all those issues that united them, revealing how much of one and the other were reflected in the museum's works and in the photographs shown during the activity.

 

Show "Women and their Picasso"

Saturday March 5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The museum commemorates Women's Day and the inauguration of the museum itself (opened on March 5, 1985) with the show "Mujeres y su Picasso", which reflects an in-depth portrait of the artist composed in six voices in which , for once, the artist from Malaga poses for Dora Maar, Fernande Olivier, Olga Khokhlova, Marie Therese Walter, Françoise Gilot and Jacqueline Roque and places the viewer in front of the inevitable question: Where would Picasso's work have come if it had not been nurtured of each of these women?

 

The Guest Piece. "Man's face" from the Abelló Collection

From March 22 to July 3.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New edition of La Pieza invitada, an exhibition program whose objective is to bring Picasso's works from other institutions closer to the public and establish a particular dialogue with the museum's permanent collection. On this occasion with the ceramic "Rostro de hombre", from the Abelló Collection and made on July 17, 1962.

In 1962, Picasso had just turned 80, and yet his artistic, creative and tireless spirit led him to continue working with all the means at his disposal in order to develop new ways of representation in his language.

 

Exhibition “The young Picasso. Technical studies"

From April 6 to July 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With works from the collection of the Museu Picasso, Barcelona”, we take a fascinating journey through the technical study of the artist's work through the creative process of two of his most notable works from his youth: “First Communion” and “Science and charity”. .

The exhibition focuses on a selection of small-format works that were key in Picasso's formative period and that, in addition, echo the pedagogical procedures that still existed at the end of the XNUMXth century, to advance the practice of drawing. and enter the color.

 

Show "Rapping Picasso"

Saturday April 23

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The museum, in collaboration with the City Council of Buitrago del Lozoya, celebrates Book Day with a very special activity, Picasso raps, in which we reflect on art, literature and culture in general, on a journey to the rhythm of rap and through urban verses.

By Arts Aka 1/29

• Sax: Alberto Guio

• Drums: Federico Marini

 

"Night of the Museums. Show "Parade. The circus of the brave"

Saturday May 21

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Show by the company La Maquiné, inspired by the world of Pablo Picasso's circus, where visitors learn the story of the little elephant Babar, who was orphaned and chained by his former owners. One fine day, Uncle Pepe and the clown Chochotte rescue him and now he lives free with them in the circus of the brave. A show with live music by Erik Satie, Igor Stravinsky and Francisc Poulenc, which investigates fundamental values ​​such as respect and coexistence to achieve a better world.

Dramaturgy: Joaquin Casanova and Elisa Ramos. 

Address: Joaquin Casanova.

Musical adaptation and arrangements: Jose Lopez-Montes.

Set design, puppets and objects: Elisa Ramos and Joaquin Casanova.

Costume design and fabric painting: Elizabeth Ramos. 

Costume making: Javier Fernandez and Vanessa. Reedbed.

Pianist musician performer: José López-Montes or Daniel Tarrida.

Cast: Noé Lifona and Elisa Ramos or Laura Bermúdez.

 

In family with Picasso and me with these hairs. A summer with friends

Saturdays, from July 23 to September 10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The little ones can enjoy 4 different workshops, 4 trips into Picasso's creative universe through 4 techniques used by the artist: ceramics, assemblage, painting and drawing.

Workshop "Between friends". July 23th. We create a collage following the trail of friendship and the footsteps of Eugenio Arias and Pablo Picasso. Thoughts, experiences, etc. displayed on a board that offers a journey through some daily episodes of their lives in Vallauris, France.

Workshop “Look at the little bird!” July 30, Through images of intimate and significant moments in Picasso's life in his last years, we learn about his family and personal encounters, and with the technique of engraving, we compose scenes of moments from his life in Vallauris.

Workshop "Metaphorofosis of a genius". August 6, Playing, we build the past together, uniting the vestiges of the life of Picasso and Arias since they began and up to the present day. A fun journey through the various facets of Picasso that aims to find the Minotaur.

Workshop “Heading for blue, pink, green… what a zoo!”. August 13, Fantastic trip to a very special destination: the Picasso Zoo, full of colors, textures, fantastic animals and pets that have a lot to tell us. A mythological zoo in Buitrago del Lozoya!

Workshop "Picasso and the pigeons". September, 10th. We investigated the printing technique to make our own bookplate from the representation of the dove in Picasso's work, a bird that symbolizes peace, freedom and free flight in his work.

 

Concert “A musical tribute to Picasso”

Saturday October 22

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The birth of the artist from Malaga is commemorated on October 25, 1881 with a concert that includes pieces by Cuban, Venezuelan and Spanish composers dedicated to Picasso, inspired by the artistic works in the Museum's collection.

Concert program

- the painter and the Model, by Sebastián Marine (Spain)

-Wings and Beaks or  bird of progress by Mercedes Zavala (Spain)

- Picasso cubed Op. 60b by Alejandro Roman (Spain)

- The Prisoner and the Dove by Iliana Pérez Velázquez (Cuba-USA)

- Framed face. On a ceramic by Picasso by Jacobo Durán-Loriga (Spain)

- Picassian strokes. The blue House. Lithography by Flores Chaviano (Cuba-Spain)

- Apollo chasing Daphne by Raquel Quiaro (Venezuela)

- Cagafierro-a bird for Eugenio Arias by Nuno Peixoto (Portugal)

- Head of a faun playing the pipe by Juan Antonio Lleo (Spain)

- Picasso museum by Marius Diaz (Cuba)

- Picasso. Suite for Ensemble by Jorge Campos (Portugal)

Mediated visits "Arias-Picasso"

From February 6 to November 20

The museum continues in 2021, its mediation program with which the public can get to know the collection up close and interpret it from a new, more creative and participatory perspective.

Under the title of “Arias-Picasso”, in these visits we delve into the museum's collections to delve into some of the moments that Eugenio Arias and Pablo Picasso shared and in all those issues that united them, revealing how much of one and the other were reflected in the museum's works and in the photographs shown during the activity.

 

 

Exhibition “Picasso. Passion for ceramics”

From February 12 to May 16

A journey through the artist's relationship with the ceramic medium through more than 30 pieces, with three different themes: tradition, metamorphosis and invention.

The exhibition, curated by Salvador Haro and Harald Thiell, has the collaboration of institutions dedicated to Picasso: the Picasso Museum of Barcelona, ​​the Palau y Fabré Foundation, the Design Museum, the Picasso Málaga Foundation, the Thermalia Museum and the González Martí National Ceramic Museum. . 

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Concert “Picasso's birds. The music that flies around Picasso "

March 6 Saturday.

The Museum celebrates the 36th anniversary of its inauguration with a concert in tribute to the artist, by the pianist, bandoneonist and composer Claudio Constantini.

A recital that features pieces by contemporary French composers of Picasso, such as Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy or Erik Satie, as well as other artists who dedicated some of their works to him, such as Astor Piazolla or Claudio Constantini himself (who performs his own unpublished pieces) , configuring a program that flies around the artist to draw a musical profile of his life and work.

 

 

 

Day of the book. Recital "Picasso never ends"

Saturday April 24

Musical intervention on the artist's poetry by dua of pel (Sonia Megías and Eva Guillamón), a duo that makes a program based on 9 poems written by Picasso, to relate each one of them to the artist's 9 pictorial stages, into which most experts divide their work.

From the blue to pink period, from Cubism to Classicism and Surrealism, musical compositions in which the influence of the places where Picasso's life passed: Paris, Malaga, Madrid or Barcelona is also perceived, forming a program in which music, poetry and art come together.

 

 

Guest piece "Bust of Picasso"

From May 10 to July 12

Work from the Abelló Collection and made on June 30, 1971.

This work corresponds to the last years of Pablo Picasso's life, made the year he celebrates his XNUMXth birthday, although the intensity of the color and the energy of the forms with which the scene works is strikingly striking. Traits that suggest that, even in the twilight of his life, his imagination and artistic creation continued to transgress artistic barriers and reflect a strong vitality.

 

"Mutations"

From May 14 to July 25

Fernando Garcia Dory (INLAND) promotes a process of experimental pedagogy, in collaboration with the artist and musician Luis Martínez and the educational community of the grouped rural school of Montejo de la Sierra, a town in the same region as the museum, which was visited by the Pedagogical Missions during the Second Republic.

From the material generated in said process (with field trips and exercises to make a sound map of the Sierra Norte environment), García Dory creates a work site specificc which is linked to Picasso's interest in ceramics, mythical animals and the environment as a current reflection of the social utopia of Picasso and his barber, Eugenio Arias.

 

 

 

Show "And you, what do you know ... about Picasso and Arias?" 

May 22

The Museum celebrates International Museum Day with a very special theatrical proposal, in the format of a television program.

Do you know who Eugenio Arias is? Do you want to get to know Pablo Picasso better? Based on the popularity of the most famous television contests, we turned the stage of the Buitrago del Lozoya Theater into a set in which adults and children participate and have fun to learn more about the Malaga genius and his friend and personal barber, Eugenio Arias.

 

 

 

Workshop "From inside the box"

Saturday 26 June

The Museum welcomes summer with this workshop (for families with boys and girls from 6 to 12 years old), in which participants take a journey from a work in the Museum's collection, to the creation of a theater piece created in performed by themselves. An activity in which the boys and girls will start from the work of art itself, observing and analyzing it together, to become creators of their own work, and viewers of it.

Collaboration: City Council of Buitrago del Lozoya.

 

 

Children's workshops “Eu-genios. Imaginary adventures! "

The 24 14 July to August

Four workshops and four trips to the creative universe of Picasso in four of his artistic processes.

We investigate the secret codes of his plastic language and we are the protagonists of our metamorphosis from Picasso's self-portraits transforming ourselves into cubist characters, to live an imaginary adventure at the hands of one of his best friends: Eugenio Arias. Picasso's barber is our accomplice in a party of brushes, paint and clay, in which we combine a wide mosaic of techniques to capture the lights and shadows of a life full of colors.

 

 

Concert "Jazz for Picasso (II)"

Saturday October 29

The museum celebrates Pablo Picasso's birthday with a pedagogical concert, in which the special relationship of the painter and cubism with Avant-garde jazz is addressed through an original repertoire inspired by the works of Malaga, created by the Zodos group to This time.

In charge of the Zodos group (Álvaro Pérez, alto sax and compositions; Álvaro Domene, seven-string guitar and compositions and Vasco Trilla, drums).

Collaboration: City Council of Buitrago del Lozoya.

 

 

 

Concert “Nostalgic Picasso. Tango in the time of Picasso "

18 of December.

A journey through this musical genre in the times of the Malaga artist, in which he proposes the possibility of Picasso expressing his nostalgia for a distant land in the language of the habaneras and the milongas.

A recital that includes pieces by Satie, Falla or Stravinsky, whom Picasso knew personally, as well as others such as Ravel, Kurt Weill, Mariano Mores or Astor Piazolla, who were contemporaries of the artist. The one and the other come together in this musical program, which flies around Picasso to draw a musical semblance of his life and his work.

In charge of: Claudio Constantini, bandoneon and Louiza Hamadi, piano

 

 

 

 

 

Exhibition "Lucien Clergue: Twenty-seven encounters with Picasso. Picasso Museum Collection. Barcelona

From February 7 to May 3

Exhibition dedicated to Lucien Clergue's photographic gaze on Pablo Picasso and composed of 245 snapshots from the Museu Picasso in Barcelona, ​​which show the painter in the private and public sphere, with a close-up image, different from that captured by other photographers.

 

Exhibition: The guest piece "Still Life with Snack, II". Musée National Picasso-Paris

From February 13 to May 10

This work is framed within a group of graphic works from the early sixties - dead natures with watermelons, glasses or snacks - in which the objects are lit by a lamp. These images are part of the tradition of Spanish still life, focused on the representation of food or kitchen scenes that in most cases are cut out on dark backgrounds, with contrasted lighting. 

 

 

 

 

Mediation visits "Arias-Picasso"

From July 4 to November 28 (Saturdays)

In charge of Invisible Pedagogies.

During these visits, we delve into the Museum's collections to delve into some of the moments shared by Eugenio Arias and Pablo Picasso and all those issues that united them, revealing how much of one and the other is reflected in the museum's works and in the photographs. displayed during the activity.

 

 

"Children's workshops"

The 18 8 July to August

Summer workshops, aimed at children between 5 and 12 years old, where we look for the man and his masks, and we surround ourselves with the spirit of friendship that Pablo Picasso and Eugenio Arias embodied, getting closer to the colors, materials and stories that both shared, AND always taking the Museum's collection as a source of inspiration.

• Portrait workshop “Picasso before the mirror: modeling a friendship”. S18 July.

• Engraving workshop "Mixed prints for everyone!" S25 July.

• Workshop collage "The combed box ". S1 August.

• Drawing workshop "Eu-genius and figure". S8th of August.

 

Guest piece. "Head of a woman (Fernande)" Museum of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid

From September 15 to December 21

Bust "Head of a woman (Fernande)", signed, dated and numbered on the back as made by Picasso in 1908 and lost wax cast by Claude Valsuani's workshop in 1957.

 

 

 

 

 

Dramatized concert "The barbie of Lavapiés: another history of barbers". Cia Lamparilla Producciones

October 24 and December 19.

Seven characters, accompanied by a pianist, put on stage this funny dramatized version of The barberillo of Lavapiés, work of Francisco Asenjo Barbieri. A story that has a lot to do with that of Picasso and his barber, Eugenio Arias: the two main characters end up living outside of Spain and the barber Lamparilla, like Arias, does not hesitate to welcome all the townspeople into his barbershop. the one that is established.

 

 

Concert "Jazz for Picasso" by Zöbik-3

November 14th

Recital structured by the close relationship between art and music in the career of the artist from Malaga, while he himself plays a decisive role in the culture of his native Spain, inspiring many musicians, writers and composers.

Zöbik-3 creates a specific repertoire, based on different works by the artist. Original compositions with graphic scores that decode some of Picasso's paintings into musical parameters and algorithms, turning the artistic works themselves into scores.

 

 

 

The Guest Piece: Franco's Dream and Lie, from the Picasso House in A Coruna

From January 22 to April 7

A new edition of The Invited Piece is presented, an exhibition program whose objective is to bring Picasso's works from other institutions closer to the public and establish a particular dialogue with the museum's permanent collection. 

On this occasion, the Museum hosts the engravings "Franco's Dream and Lie", together with a metaphorical text, made by Pablo Picasso for the Spanish Pavilion of the 1937 International Exhibition in Paris. They come from the Casa Picasso of the Concello da Coruña.

 

 

 

Gyenes exhibition: Picasso in the lens

From February 7 to May 5

The Museum presents this exhibition, dedicated to the photographic view of the Spanish-Hungarian Juan Gyenes on Picasso at three different moments in the life of the painter from Malaga. The exhibition is completed with books, engravings and subsequent images that offer a global vision of the life and work of Pablo Picasso.

 

 

mediation visits

'Picasso, Arias and a tea table'. 

From February 9 to June 22 (2 Saturdays a month)

"Face Overlay"

Saturdays September 7 and 21; October 5 and 19; November 2 and 16

With these mediation visits we delve into the Museum's collections to delve into some of the moments that Eugenio Arias and Pablo Picasso shared and all those issues that united them, revealing how much of one and the other is reflected in the works of the museum and in the photographs that will be shown during the activity.

 

 

Guest piece. Plate decorated with a tournament scene (knight in armor) from the Musée national Picasso-Paris

From April 6 April to June 30

New edition of La Pieza invitada, an exhibition program whose objective is to bring Picasso's works from other institutions closer to the public and establish a particular dialogue with the museum's permanent collection. 

On this occasion, the invited Piece is a ceramic plate, from the Musée Picasso in Paris, with a scene that represents an armed knight. Dated in 1951, it was made in the Madoura ceramics workshop, in Vallauris, a French town where the genius met the barber and friend of his, Eugenio Arias.

 

 

Exhibition 'Seven Faces of Picasso'

From April 9 to June 30

The Arias Museum presents the exhibition "Seven faces of Picasso", a tribute to the Malaga genius through 7 photographs reinterpreted by different artists, from the Palau Foundation.

On April 22, 1964, the Catalan biographer and poet Josep Palau took a portrait of Picasso with his old Kodak, which is the starting point of this exhibition. This snapshot has been reinterpreted and intervened by artists of the stature of Joan Fontcuberta, Luis Gordillo, Antoni Llena, Antoni Muntadas, Carlos Pazos, Perejaume and Antoni Tàpies, based on an invitation from the Palau Foundation, on the occasion of the 90th anniversary by Joseph Palau.

 

 

Day of the book. calligram workshop

April 27

We celebrate Book Day with a workshop on calligrams aimed at families with boys and girls from 6 years old. In this activity, we create our own calligrams or visual poems from the works that the museum preserves, emulating Picasso himself or his friend, the poet Apollinaire, who were very fond of this technique, halfway between literature and the arts plastic.

Workshop given by José Miguel Capote.

 

 

Exhibition “La Celestina (1499) and Picasso (1968)”

From May 9 to July 7

This exhibition is presented, dedicated to the painter from Malaga's fascination with a theme as Spanish as that of La Celestina, a fundamental character in the Comedy of Calisto and Melibea, by Fernando de Rojas, published in 1499.

Picasso's interest in this literary character dates back to his early youth, since in 1898 he copied a print by Goya on the subject of the pimp and female prostitution. Although in the Blue Period he continued with the Celestina theme, it would not be until 1968, when the painter was eighty-six years old, that a new period began, the result of which was the engraving of 347 copper plates around series such as the Painter working and La Celestina. 

 

 

Guest piece 'Seated woman with one arm raised' from the Museo Picasso in Malaga

From July 2 to September 30

The Museum, within the program The Invited Piece, presents on this occasion the lithograph “Seated Woman with Raised Arm”, made on January 12, 1956 and from the Picasso Museum in Malaga. A work that seems to be inspired by the variations of the work "Women in Algiers" with which Picasso paid homage to the romantic Delacroix, based on the female figure of Jacqueline Roque, his second wife, as the protagonist. 

 

 

 

Summer cinema of the Picasso Museum-Eugenio Arias Collection

July 13th

Summer cinema on Picasso with a documentary film that addresses the youthful period of the painter, and the creation of modern painting.

'When Pablo becomes Picasso' (When Pablo became Picasso)
Country: France / Year: 2014 / Duration: 55 min / Directed by: Yvan Demeulandre, Jessica Piersanti

Synopsis: Little Pablo, born in 1881, always admired his father, also a painter, and at the age of 8 he draws a scene from a bullfight that demonstrates a rapid stroke, far removed from the more laborious stroke of children his age. At the age of 14 he attends his first drawing class at a prestigious school in Barcelona. He is the youngest and brightest of his classmates, but at 16 he abandons the academic path that his father traced for him to follow his own path in search of his personal style. Pablo arrives in the dazzling Paris of 1900 full of ambition and, at the age of 25, transforms the world of painting with his masterpiece, 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon' (1907). His Parisian life is intense, full of love, marked by the beginning of a great rivalry with Matisse and, above all, by the creation of modern painting.

 

 

'Summer Workshops' at the Picasso Museum-Eugenio Arias Collection

The 20 10 July to August

Aimed at children between the ages of 5 and 12 and in collaboration with the Buitrago del Lozoya City Council, in these summer workshops, we look for the man and his masks, and we surround ourselves with the spirit of friendship that Pablo Picasso and Eugenio Arias embodied, getting closer to the colors, materials and stories that both shared, And always, taking the Museum's collection as a source of inspiration.

Workshops:  "The Amazed Friends" on collage / “In the shadow of… a hair!” on engraving / “Picasso's hats” on humor in Picasso's work / “Bellasombra: the garden of sought-after peace” on the intimate world of Picasso.

 

 

Show "Picasso in dance"

October 25

The Museum commemorates the birthday of the artist from Malaga with a show that recreates the feminine universe of Pablo Picasso, a tribute through the seven women who shared his life with him. A journey through movement and sound space through more traditional melodies and root steps, together with musical forms and current steps, giving shape to a common story that links the ancestral and the symbolic.

By Ibérica de danza

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Artistic direction and choreography: Manuel Segovia. 

Artistic and executive direction: Violeta Ruiz del Valle

Assistant director and repeater: Raquel Ruiz

Music: Acetre, Coetus, JA Arteche / Iberian Ensemble Orchestra

Dancers: Santiago Herranz, Lucía Martínez, Jaime Puente and Nuria Tena

 

Concert “Picasso-Arias aesthetic complicities”

Saturday December 14

We celebrate Christmas with a concert in whichThe relationship between the painter Pablo Picasso and his friend Eugenio Arias runs through different musical compositions related to both characters and their social and cultural environment.

The recital offers a complete program, which includes everything from Castilian song, with pieces by Pauline Viardot or Eduardo Toldrá, to a large representation of the music of Spanish composers in Paris, such as Isaac Albéniz or Enrique Granados. Likewise, the figure of Jean Cocteau, closely linked to the music of the time, and with whom Picasso and Arias had a relationship, will be remembered through pieces by Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc or extracts from the ballet Parade.

Led by Elena Gragera (mezzo-soprano) and Antón Cardó (piano)

 

 

 

Visits “Super-position of faces”

From February 10 to November 17

Under the title of “Superimposition of faces”, once again the program of guided visits with a mediation format continues, in which the public gets to know the collection up close, which is interpreted from a new and creative perspective. We also delve into the Museum's collections to delve into some of the moments that Eugenio Arias and Pablo Picasso shared and all the issues that united them, revealing how much of one and the other is reflected in the works of the museum and in the photographs that are displayed during the activity.

 

 

Carnival at the Museum. Workshop for families "Picassian Masquerade"

Sunday February 11

We celebrate Carnival with a workshop in which attendees organize a masquerade in the purest Picasso style, accompanied by a fun harlequin.

In this Picasso masquerade we learn the imagined story of the great harlequin of the Moulin. On a day of Carnival, a troupe of gods, long-haired and bald, came out of the French town of California in search of Picasso's barber, Eugenio Arias, to help them prevent the painter from portraying them, since they had been hiding from him for days. Those attending this workshop learn more about this funny story and take part in the great painting that ends with Picasso portraying a flute-playing pigeon or a bald-headed conga player. Aimed at: families with boys and girls from 6 years old.

 

 

 

 

"Family portraits. Bancaja Foundation Collection"

April 5 to July 1

The series that is presented is made in lithography, a technique that the Malaga native began to use with the lithographer Fernand Mourlot in his Parisian workshop from 1945. In the 21 years that Picasso devoted himself to this technique, he made more than 400 prints.

“Family Portraits” is made up of five prints and is completed with a rare piece of which perhaps only one copy remains. They are all dated between 1962 and 1966 and it is likely that Picasso made them for the Louise Leiris gallery in Paris. The series seems to be inspired by the monotypes with which Edgar Degas illustrated the work La famille Cardinal, by Ludovic Halévy, a symbol of the pedantic and pompous Parisian petty bourgeoisie.

 

 

 

The invited piece "The three crowned graces". Musée national Picasso - Paris

From April 5 to July 1

A new edition of "The Guest Piece" whose objective is to bring works by Picasso from other institutions closer to the public, on this occasion, is also part of the Picasso-Mediterranean project, an initiative of the Musée national Picasso-Paris.

Picasso worked on the mythological theme of the three graces on several occasions, often approaching it in parallel to the theme of the bathers and as an excuse to explore the treatment of the female nude and its movements.

The print "The three graces crowned with flowers" dates from January 18, 1938 and represents a darker version of this theme, due to the use of the etching technique. Despite their elegant crowns of flowers, graces move away from the canon of academic beauty through exaggerated bodies at different anatomical points and, especially, by geometric faces inspired by cubist language.

 

 

 

 

Dramatized reading "The desire caught by the tail"

April 22 and October 27 (Picasso's birthday)

Picasso's relationship with literature is one of his least known facets, despite the fact that he wrote various poetic texts, as well as two plays. One of them is this The desire caught by the tail, a surrealist theatrical farce written in 1941, in full German occupation in which the characters, deeply marked by the war, reflect the anguish of hunger and cold. The work premiered in 1944 in the apartment of the Leiris couple, with a reading of it by some intellectual friends of Picasso, such as Dora Maar or Jean Paul Sartre.

In charge of the El Velador Company

 

 

Mutations. Artistic interventions in museums

From April 26 to July 22

This second edition of "Mutations" takes the name of "Secret Lives. The author through objects” and is curated by Lola Hinojosa. The museums that participate in this program (Cervantes Birthplace Museum, Lope de Vega House Museum, Picasso Museum–Eugenio Arias Collection and Nuevo Baztán Interpretation Center) share the strong presence of a series of characters that function as objects and subjects of different historical accounts.

Loreto Martínez Troncoso is in charge of intervening in the Picasso Museum-Eugenio Arias Collection, by summoning the voices of exile and, among them, that of Eugenio Arias. Using the radio as a meeting point, the artist evokes biographical elements of Picasso and Arias to inhabit them from her own biography and intimacy, in a story full of farewells and dedications to a friend that are materialized through various clay pieces and interventions sound.

 

 

"Picasso by Duncan. The complicit gaze". Works from the Picasso Museum in Barcelona

From May 10 to July 22

Exhibition dedicated to the photographic gaze of the American David Douglas Duncan (1916) on Picasso and his most intimate surroundings through more than 65 images made during more than seventeen years of friendship, from the Museu Picasso in Barcelona.

David Douglas Duncan began his professional career as a war reporter during World War II and in 1946 he was hired by Life magazine to cover different war conflicts around the world. During a brief stay in Cannes in 1956, he established contact with Pablo Picasso, beginning a cordial friendship that lasted until the artist's death in 1973.  

Curators: Emmanuel Guigon and Silvia Domènech

 

 

Exhibition of cubist hairstyles. Tribute to Eugenio Arias, Picasso's barber

May 19

The Picasso Museum pays tribute to Eugenio Arias on International Museum Day, with an exhibition that will merge the cubist art of the artist from Malaga with the most current trends in male hairdressing and barbering and the most emerging creativity. All this, in a setting decorated with vintage barbershop pieces such as armchairs, utensils and tools, and in charge of great professionals from the hairdressing sector.

Coordination: Josep María Figuera (director of theQhair and Barberiasconencanto)

 

 

The invited piece "Majolica plate with two fishes". National Museum of Ceramics and Sumptuary Arts González Martí

From July 3 to September 30

On this occasion, the invited piece is a majolica plate made by Pablo Picasso in 1954 and from the “González Martí” National Museum of Ceramics and Sumptuary Arts in Valencia. It is one of the five pieces that the artist himself donated to the Museum when he met with its founder, Manuel González Martí, at the congress of the International Academy of Ceramics in Geneva in 1955.

Between 1952 and 1954 Picasso made a large production of fountains and plates decorated with fish, as is the case of this Guest Piece. It is a white pasta dish, based on local popular typologies, in which Picasso scribbled two opposing fish, recalling the ancient fish dishes of classical Greece, or even the utilitarian kitchen or tableware.

 

 

 

Summer children's workshops. "A Summer with Picasso"

The 21 11 July to August

The Museum offers the youngest the opportunity to enjoy its summer workshops, aimed at children between 6 and 12 years of age. Children will delve into the artistic techniques used by Pablo Picasso, such as ceramics, assemblage, painting or drawing, taking the Museum's collection as a source of inspiration.

• Workshop "What a cut!" on collage. Saturday July 21.

• Workshop "The talkative wig" on portrait and collage. Saturday July 28.

• Workshop "Dream Hairdresser" on assemblage and photography. Saturday August 4.

• Workshop “Drawing with the heart. Searching for the muse” on portraiture and engraving. Saturday August 11.

Aimed at boys and girls from 5 to 12 years old

 

Summer Cinema

Friday September 7

Summer film series on Picasso with two films that delve into the artist's personal life, through his relationship with two of his wives: Dora Maar and Françoise Gilot.

Dora Maar despite Picasso, by Alejandro Lasala and Victoria Combalía (France, 2014). Duration: 50 min.

Documentary that brings us closer to the figure and the memory of Dora Maar, Picasso's lover. The film presents Maar as a beautiful, discreet and dignified woman, with her own personality and a style that made her a leading figure in her profession, photography, beyond the long shadow of Picasso.

After the screening of the film, a talk-colloquium is held.

Surviving Picasso, by James Ivory (United States, 1996). Duration: 125 min.

Drama that portrays the loves and passions of the painter from Malaga. In 1943, the young painter Françoise Gilot meets Pablo Picasso. For the next ten years she will be his muse and partner, providing him with inspiration and two children. She will also see how other women appear in Pablo's life and she will also have to put up with his whims, his strange sense of humor and her stinginess.

 

The Guest Piece. Plaque decorated with infanta. Musée National Picasso in Paris

From September 27 to December 20

Pablo Picasso began in 1957, and during his stay in the Bay of Cannes, a series of more than fifty paintings around Las Meninas, the masterpiece by Diego Velázquez that the man from Malaga interprets according to his point of view, carefully dissecting the original composition.

In this analytical process of Velázquez's work, Picasso stopped to study certain characters, especially the Infanta Margarita María, the central character of the work, which the artist from Malaga painted on multiple occasions and in the most diverse formats. This invited piece, from the Musée Picasso in Paris, is one of those works of study of the figure of the Infanta, and is made of ceramic, one of Picasso's favorite materials during these years.

 

 

Workshop for families "The cape of Picasso"

December 15 and 16

Did you know that Picasso was classic and modern at the same time? He was a great innovator in art but, at the same time, a lover of traditions such as the Spanish cape, perhaps because it was a garment that reminded him of his country of origin and of his childhood and youth. For this reason, her last wife, Jacqueline Roque, ordered a Spanish cape from the famous Seseña house in Madrid to give it to her husband.

In this workshop, we can discover as a family the fascinating history of Picasso's cape and make our own garment, developing creativity in the Picasso Barber Museum.

Aimed at adults with children from 5 to 12 years old.

 

 

 

"A Cloak for Picasso" Exhibition

Until the 31 of January of 2019

The Picasso Museum-Eugenio Arias Collection presents the installation “A cape for Picasso”, in collaboration with Capas Seseña, to publicize the fascinating history of the painter's cape.

Picasso was able to combine modernity and tradition in his person. He was a modern artist who incorporated numerous innovations into his art, but he was also a lover of our traditions such as the use of the Spanish cape, a garment that perhaps reminded him of his country of origin and of his childhood and youth. One of his capes was precisely a personal order that his last wife, Jacqueline Roque, made for the famous Seseña house. A Spanish cape with which Eugenio Arias himself wrapped the corpse of Pablo Picasso.