Picasso. La metamorfosi della figura

Thursday, March 14, 2024, 6:00 pm
MUDEC– Museo delle Culture, Auditorium
Lecture in Spanish with Italian translation

Antonio Jiménez Millán will present Picasso under one of the lesser-known aspects of the Spanish artist, recounting his activity as a poet and playwright that began in 1935. Highlights of his literary production-far from genre conventions and spelling rules-will be covered, as well as his 1940s French-language theatrical production and important editorial work in book illustration.

Speaker: Antonio Jiménez Millán
He is professor of Romance Literature at the University of Malaga. His non-fiction books include Los poemas de Picasso. He has edited the literary works of Pablo Picasso, Louis Aragon, Luis Cernuda, Manuel Altolaguirre and José Manuel Caballero Bonald. In 2009 he was curator of the exhibition and author of the catalog Antonio Machado. Labyrinth of mirrors . He translated Jean Cocteau’s essay Picasso. As a poet, he received the international awards “Rey Juan Carlos I” in 1986, “Ciudad de Melilla” in 2002, “Generación del 27” in 2010 and “Hermanos Machado” in 2022.

Thursday, April 4, 2024, 18:00
MUDEC– Museum of Cultures, Auditorium
Lecture in Spanish with Italian translation

Antón Castro will lead us through an analysis of the role that primitive art played on the revolutionary development of historical avant-gardism in the late 19th century and early decades of the 20th century. Through the observation of the paradigmatic work of Gauguin, the Fauvism of Matisse and Derain, the Expressionism of Die Brücke, and, above all, the Cubism of Picasso we will understand how much the discovery of so-called black art in the statuary form conditioned the decisive paradigm shifts in the aesthetic canons of early modernity that led to the break with tradition and the birth of the avant-garde.

Speaker: Antón Castro
Professor of contemporary art at the University of Vigo and visiting professor at several universities. He has been director of the IPC (Spanish Cultural Heritage Institute) and is a member of AICA-France (International Association of Art Critics). Since 1980, he has curated 120 exhibitions and written about 800 articles on art. Member of the scientific committee of the exhibition El primer Picasso. A Coruña 2025 and curator of Picasso en sus carteles and Picasso blanco en el recuerdo azul. Dibujando el futuro as part of the celebration “Picasso. 50 years since his death, 1973-2023.” He was director and lecturer of Picasso courses at A Coruña and Menéndez Pelayo International University. His publications on Picasso include The Early Picasso (1891-1895), A Portrait by Young Ar and numerous essays.

Thursday, May 23, 2024, 18:00
MUDEC– Museum of Cultures, Auditorium
Lecture in Spanish with Italian translation

José Lebrero Stals will guide us to discover Pablo Picasso’s early artistic years, among the gypsy women, flamenco players and street performers who were the subjects of his early iconographic repertoire. We will discover how from experimentation with the sinuous figure of the guitar first and the bodies of dancing dancers later, the artist’s artistic journey led to the birth of the Cubist movement, which had Picasso as its revolutionary leader.

Speaker: José Lebrero Stals
Between 1996 and 2002 he was chief curator of the Exhibitions Department of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Between 2003 and 2009 he was director of the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville. From October 2009 to December 2023 he was artistic director of the Picasso Museum in Malaga, where he curated numerous exhibitions. In 2012 he received the Order of Arts and Letters from the French Ministry of Culture. He is a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Telmo de Málaga.