Intro Spot | Exhibition "Pablo Picasso: Exile and Nostalgia"

Small drawings of bulls, bullfighters, picadors or other scenes of the arena, the love for the Mediterranean, the love and the nostalgia for the homeland, the solidarity for the fellow fighter and (co)exiled compatriot, important political interventions and artistic gestures of great spontaneity, all seen through the long-time correspondence of two very good friends, Pablo Picasso and Eugenio Arias, are the main axes of the new, international exhibition of the MOMus-Museum of Modern Art-Costakis Collection entitled "Pablo Picasso: Exile and Nostalgia".
The exhibition, coproduced by the Museo Casa Natal Picasso in Málaga, will be presented from 12 July to 10 November 2024 at the MOMus-Museum of Modern Art, in the Moni Lazariston in Thessaloniki, and focuses on Pablo Picasso's long-standing and multi-dimensional friendship with the barber and friend of Eugenio Arias, exiled resistance fighter. Through the correspondence of the two men, the turbulent period of the civil war in Spain and the period after that (1936-1952), such as the ties with the French Resistance and the illegal Communist Party of Spain, is illuminated in an extremely special way.
The exhibition “Pablo Picasso: Exile and Nostalgia” features drawings, prints and ceramics from the collections of the Museo Casa Natal de Picasso in Malaga, many of which are being exhibited for the first time outside of Spain. The specific works are in dialogue with works from the Costakis collection and archive from the period of the Russian Avant-Garde that are parallelly presented in parallel at the MOMus-Museum of Modern Art, thus broadening the perspective on modernism, bringing together the European historical avant-garde art movements.
Curated by: Carlos Ferrer Barrera
Coordination: Maria Tsantsanoglou
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