Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Malaga’s Around the World in 8 museums – ElTiempo.com

The Andalusian city of Malaga, starting this week, will artworks that until now had to visit in Paris or St. Petersburg, and which add to the wealth he already had its most universal son Pablo Picasso.

The new Centre Pompidou in pier of this coastal town in southern Spain, and the headquarters of the Russian State Art Museum of St. Petersburg, in a old tobacco factory, complete a museum octahedron near the birthplace of Picasso, the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), the Picasso Museum and the Carmen Thyssen Museum, which will join later this year, the Museum of Fine Arts Archaeological.

All of them offer a complete view of the world through eight museums. The starting point is in 1988 when the Picasso Foundation was created, based in the birthplace of the artist.

Now comes the Pompidou Centre, in what will be the first venue Parisian institution outside France and displays a collection of more than 80 works by artists such as Picasso, Francis Bacon, Frida Kahlo, René Magritte and Alberto Giacometti.

Also this week inaugurate the headquarters of the State Museum of Russian Art in St. Petersburg, thanks to an agreement signed in May 2014 in the Russian city with a duration of ten years, renewable for another ten.
Kandinsky, Chagall, Malevich and Tatlin are some artists present at the first annual exhibition scheduled.

Fine Arts and Archaeology

To finish around the world, the Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology, whose reopening is planned later this year. Fine Arts has a collection of 2,000 works, including prints by Picasso, and the Archaeological Section, has more than 15,000 pieces, some important Phoenician and Arabic times.

EFE

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