The Picasso Metamorphosis exhibition scheduled for October 18 at Palazzo Reale marks the Milan autumn season: dedicated to the multifaceted and fruitful relationship that the Spanish genius has developed, throughout his extraordinary career, with myth and antiquity, aims to explore from this particular perspective his intense and complex creative process
This exhibition presents about 200 works, not just Picasso’s but ancient works of art which inspired the great master and which come from the Musée National Picasso in Paris and other important museums in Europe, such as the Musée du Louvre in Paris, the Vatican Museums in Rome, the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, the Musée Picasso in Antibes, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, the Center Pompidou in Paris, the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris, the Museu Picasso in Barcelona.
The exhibition forms part of the study of the great artist undertaken by Palazzo Reale over the decades, a series of exhibitions on Picasso which have created a special relationship between the Spanish maestro and Milan so special. To start with was the exhibition of Guernica in the Sala delle Cariatidi 1953, an exceptional event and an authentic gift that Picasso made to the city; followed, almost half a century later with a great retrospective in September 2001, (four days after the attacks on the Twin Towers), organised with the collaboration of the artist's heirs; then the monographic review of 2012, which documented in chronological order the variety of techniques and means of expression that Picasso used.
Picasso Metamorphosis shows the influence of ancient works of art and the way Picasso reivented them.