MALAGA.- In February 2022, Museo Picasso Málaga’s annual programme will begin with Face to Face. Picasso and the Old Masters (22nd February – 26th June 2020), in which works by Old Masters such as El Greco and Zurbarán will be shown alongside others by Pablo Picasso, discovering links between Picasso’s work and a selection of works by the Old Masters. Michael FitzGerald, professor of modern and contemporary art at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, is the curator of the show, which has been jointly organized by Museo Picasso Málaga and Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla.

In spring 2022, a retrospective of Paula Rego comes to Málaga (26th April –21st August 2022). It shows the work and tells the story of an artist who led an extraordinary life, highlighting the personal nature of much of her work and the socio-political context in which it is rooted. Paula Rego (Lisbon, 1935) has lived and worked in London since her youth. She redefined figurative art and revolutionized the way women are represented. Power relations, mythology and sexuality are common themes in her work. With this show, Museo Picasso Málaga once again showcases the work of 20th-century women artists, following its exhibitions of the work of Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Hilma af Klint, Louise Bourgeois and women surrealist artists. Curated by Elena Crippa, the exhibition is organized by Tate Britain, in collaboration with Kunstmuseum Den Haag and Museo Picasso Málaga.

Since autumn of last year, MPM has been showing The Paris of Brassaï. Photographs of the City Picasso Loved (19th October 2021 – 3rd April 2022). The exhibition focuses not only on the work of a photographer who constructed a visual topography of the City of Light (and shadows), in the 1930s and 1940s. It also shows Brassaï as a prolific creative artist who deigned books, drew nudes, and carved sculptures. Because the exhibition is being held at Museo Picasso Málaga, of the many relationships he forged in Paris with writers, essayists, playwrights, and visual artists, it focuses on his close and fertile professional and personal relationship with Pablo Picasso.

FACE TO FACE.
PICASSO AND THE OLD MASTERS
22 Feb. – 26 Jun. 2022

The exhibition, jointly organized with Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla, will be a unique opportunity to discover the links between Pablo Picasso and leading artists of the past. Paintings by El Greco, Francisco Pacheco, Giovanni Battista Caracciolo, Francisco de Zurbarán, Cornelius Norbertus Gijsbretchs, Bernardo Lorente Germán and Diego Bejarano will be hung alongside major works by Pablo Picasso.




Face to Face. Picasso and the Old Masters presents paintings from the Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla’s remarkable collection of Spanish and other European Masters opposite nine important works by Picasso belonging to the Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte (FABA). The exhibition at the MPM is distinguished from its previous appearance at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla by the inclusion of an exceptional additional painting by Picasso in the collection of the Museo de Málaga.

PAULA REGO
26 Apr. – 21 Aug. 2022

Paula Rego (b. 1935) is an uncompromising artist of extraordinary imaginative power, Rego redefined figurative art and revolutionised the way in which women are represented. The exhibition tells the story of this artist’s remarkable life, highlighting the personal nature of much of her work and the socio-political context in which it is rooted. It reveals her broad range of references, from comic strips to history paintings. Featuring over 80 works including collage, paintings, large-scale pastels, drawings and etchings, the show spans Rego’s early work from the 1960s to her richly layered, staged scenes from the 2000s.

Curated by Elena Crippa, Curator, Modern & Contemporary Art, this exhibition is organised by Tate Britain in collaboration with Kunstmuseum Den Haag and Museo Picasso Málaga. It will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue in Spanish and in English.

THE PARIS OF BRASSAÏ.
PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE CITY PICASSO LOVED
19 Oct. 2021 – 3 Apr. 2022

The exhibition that is currently on display at the Museo Picasso Málaga until April 2022, The Paris of Brassaï. Photographs of the City Picasso Loved, shows the work of one of the most famous European photographers of the first half of the 20th century. With his work, Brassaï helped to create the universal public image of Paris, the Eternal City. It is displayed here alongside works by Pablo Picasso, Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Lucien Clergue, Fernand Léger, Dora Maar and Henri Michaux, and with period piece films, posters, sheet music and a large quantity of documentary material.