The thousand faces of monumental sculptor Picasso MoMA show – Gaceta Mercantil.com

By Mariano Andrade

NEW YORK (AFP) .- Cubist Guitars and violins sheet metal, monumental heads and busts of women with plaster disproportionate eyes, a man with a lamb in her arms bronze : some 140 works covering 60 years of Picasso sculptor shine from next Monday at the MoMA in New York

“The exhibition walk through the various episodes of Picasso’s career as a sculptor Sometimes.. is hard to believe that this is the same artist from one room to the other, “said curator Ann Temkin, referring to the range of styles included in the sample which opens on September 14 and will run until February 7, 2016 in the prestigious Museum of Modern Art located in the heart of Manhattan.

“Picasso Sculpture”, the largest exhibition in half a century in the United States dedicated to this facet of the Spanish artist, brings together 140 works, many of them loans from public and private collections, mainly from the National Picasso Museum in Paris, which accounted for almost a third.

The sample is from 1902 and the first works in bronze, wood and plaster, to his sculptures with sheets Painted metal period 1954-1964, through the cubist period, the prewar years in Boisgeloup (France), World War II and stage in Vallauris and Cannes, on the French Riviera gala.

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) lived much of his life recognized as one of the great masters of the twentieth century painting, his sculpture, which was made in stages, without continuity, remained hidden from the public until his death, as curator Anne Umland said.

“Picasso kept his sculptures with him throughout his life. It is only at the time of his death Picasso sculptures begin their journey outside the studio to public and private collections in the world, “said Umland.

MoMA’s early interest in acquiring these works the artist led the museum to currently possess the “most complete collection of Picasso sculptures” outside the museum in Paris.

“A miracle.” The exhibition can view works with the trademark Picasso, as their musical instruments Cubism and women with disproportionate faces, but also less known sculptures such as the bronze “Head of Death” (1941) or created in the late 1920s to the contest for the tomb his friend the French writer Guillaume Apollinaire, none of which was accepted

“Picasso Sculpture” also includes a “miracle.”, as defined Ann Temkin the fact achieve together for the first time to set six glasses of absinthe in bronze painted in 1914 that created the artist born in Malaga and dispersed shortly after the outbreak of the First World War.

Other attractions are some of the five sculptures that Picasso presented with its mythical peace mural “Guernica” at the Universal Exposition in Paris in 1937, including the great bronze “Woman with Vase” (1933), the period of his life in the castle Boisgeloup.

To highlight also the only set of sculptures created in his career, “The Bathers” (1956), six wooden figures lent by the State Gallery of Stuttgart, Germany.

Temkin recalled the influence he had on the development Artistic Picasso a visit to the Ethnographic Museum in Paris in 1907, where he discovered sculptures, figures and masks from Oceania and Africa where he saw “a magical presence and a kind of charisma,” which sought to bring to their work.

According to the curator, the sculpture was a format that is “molded itself very well,” the temperament of “restless and impatient” Picasso, as allowed start, leave and return to a work at any time, unlike the painting, which requires more preparation.