(Adnkronos) - Si sviluppa attorno al concetto di accoglienza la mostra ‘Picasso. Lo straniero’, ospitata da Palazzo Reale a Milano e visitabile dal 20 settembre 2024 fino al 2 febbraio 2025. Proprio nella sale del Palazzo che affaccia su Piazza Duomo distrutte dai bombardamenti, l’artista spagnolo volle esporre nel 1945 la sua Guernica, per denunciare l’orrore della guerra. Le sue opere tornano oggi nello stesso luogo con un’esposizione che vuole essere un richiamo alle contraddizioni della nostra società che ancora oggi, troppo spesso, rifiuta lo straniero e le diversità.
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00:00Picasso's works go back to the same place where, almost 80 years ago, the artist decided
00:09to expose his famous Guernica to denounce the horror of war.
00:13Picasso, the Stranger, this is the title of the exhibition promoted by the municipality
00:16of Milan, with the support as a sponsor of Biperbanca, is an exhibition that not only
00:21highlights unknown corners of the life of the painter, but also reveals the human
00:26difficulties and the difficulties he suffered as a foreigner in France, thus giving the
00:30entire exhibition a precise key to read the importance of reception.
00:35Picasso as a foreigner, as an anarchist and also as an avant-garde artist, was thrown
00:44away from the French museums, from the Academy of Fine Arts, it means that his life in France
00:49was not easy.
00:50It is an exhibition that starts as a very hard thing and ends with a victory, it means
00:58that it is an exhibition of joy, an exhibition that teaches everyone that the city must be
01:04open, open to diversity, open to the other, open to the stranger, instead of closing it.
01:12With the support of the exhibition, which can be visited from September 20 to February 2, 2025,
01:17Biperbanca has confirmed his historic commitment to promoting the dissemination of the art
01:22and culture, inviting on this occasion also to a deeper reflection.
01:27A reflection that obviously puts the artist on the same identity, but also the man, a
01:32man who had a very important life, a life of great artistic wealth in a country that
01:38was not his, so here are born reflections on the immigrant Picasso man, the Picasso man
01:44who lives in France, who tries to be welcomed in every way, even to ask repeatedly also
01:50to be able to be a French citizen and this thing will never be recognized.
01:56Despite this, he is a great artist, a great free man who has been able to make his art
02:01something really important within his identity, but also in the research of a collective
02:08that he has always sought and that he has always desired.
02:12The retrospective dedicated to the great Spanish painter was strongly wanted by the
02:16Municipality of Milan to tell unpublished facetations of the artist's identity.
02:20This is a political Picasso, a Picasso that is told through his impossibility
02:28to be a citizen, the refusal by the Louvre Museum of the donation of the Moselle d'Avignon,
02:35historical facts that have to do with the political and social life of a great artist,
02:42of a giant like Pablo Picasso.
02:44I must thank Cécile Debré and Nick Coensolal who curated the exhibition with extraordinary
02:52loans from the Picasso Museum and who will allow us to open a great exhibition that will
02:56also and above all tell the irregular story of an extraordinary figure of the art of the
03:03past and of a recent past.