The Year of Picasso closes with a major exhibition at the Reina Sofia in Madrid

It can be seen in the exhibition “Picasso 1906. The Great Transformation”, which was a decisive stage in the career of the Malaga painter. It will be open to the public starting this Wednesday until March 4th. and will close the official program of international exhibitions commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of the Spanish genius.

Kings of SpainFelipe and Letizia will open the exhibitionIt is a work that focuses on the year 1906, when Picasso’s first contribution to modern art took place, and also reflects the artist’s homoerotic sensitivity.

The exhibition aims to re-read the artist and renew the criteria regarding the key role played by Picasso. Her main contribution to the creation of modern art in this sense is thought to be ‘The Young Ladies of Avignon’ in 1907.

“‘The Young Ladies of Avignon’ is overrated for its contribution to modernity.” According to Eugenio Carmona, the curator of the exhibition, 1906 was the year when Picasso transformed the concept of “nude” into the concept of “body” and gave men a meaningful role.

For the first time in Picasso’s work The existence of homoeroticism is decisive The paintings that can be seen in the exhibition are full of “aesthetic vitalism” and “erotic kindness” relationship with the body.

when it happens Artist’s relationship with homosexuals assuming their situation is ‘not anecdotal’. Later, and in other later periods, Picasso transforms male figures into female figures and male figures into female figures “in the blink of an eye”, indicating “gender fluidity” within the artist.

Another feature of this exhibition dedicated to this transformative year of the artist is interculturality. He later re-read art history through El Greco, Corot and Cezanne.and has already absorbed so-called “black art”, a relationship illustrated at Reina Sofia by selected pieces from different periods of European and African art.