City of London
July 2016 to May 2017
15 large-scale public sculptures by artists including the Catalan sculptor Jaume Plensa’s Laura (2013), one of his female portraits symbolising the state of dreaming and aspiration (shown near ‘the Gherkin’); and four works from Peruvian-born Lizi Sánchez’s abstract Cadenetas series (2016) of small brightly-coloured lead rings cut into loops forming interlocking rings.
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Picasso: His late work: A tribute to Jacqueline
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland
18 June – 20 November, 2016
Exhibition marking the 30th anniversary of Picasso’s last wife and final muse, Jacqueline Rocque. Presents a selection of more than 110 items of Picasso’s ceramics, engravings, paintings and sculptures from the mid 1950’s to his death in 1973, many of which feature Jacqueline as his model. During the first ten years of this period, Picasso revisited masterpieces from the past: Delacroix (Les Femmes d’Alger, 1954-1955), Velázquez (Las Meninas, 1957), Manet (Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, 1959-1961), Poussin and David (L’Enlèvement des Sabines, 1963). After 1963 Picasso focussed on the painter and his model. In 1963 alone Jacqueline is represented 160 times in the artist’s work. In addition to the paintings, the exhibition also reveals Picasso’s skills in other forms of expression: printmaking in the form of etchings, lithographs and linocuts; sculpture and ceramics. Accompanied by a catalogue (in French).
Picasso: The Great War, Experimentation and Change
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
10 June– 11 September, 2016
Exhibition (having toured from the Barnes Museum, Philadelphia) inspired by CMA’s Picasso Still Life with Compote and Glass, 1914–15. It features some 50 works drawn from major museums and private collections from around the world. The exhibition explores how Picasso’s work was affected by the tumultuous years of the First World War, when the artist began experimenting with both cubist and classical modes in his art. Important canvases by Picasso’s contemporaries—including Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, and Diego Rivera— are also shown. The exhibition also features four costumes designed by Picasso for the avant-garde ballet, Parade, which premiered in Paris in 1917 and was the first cross-disciplinary collaboration of its kind. Picasso was the first avant-garde artist involved in such a production. The exhibition will be reviewed by The Burlington Magazine post July 2016. As a complementary display to the main exhibition the CMA will also be showing Pablo Picasso: 25 Years of Edition Ceramics, created by the artist in the decade following 1946 in collaboration with Georges and Suzanne Ramie of the Madoura pottery.
Pablo Picasso: Drawing Inspiration
Nathan Cummings Building for Modern and Contemporary Art Israel Museum, Jerusalem
7 July – 19 November, 2016
Featuring several hundred works from the Israel Museum’s collection, complemented by notable loans from major museums worldwide showcases Picasso’s artistic evolution, experimentations, and virtuosity from the turn of the 20th century to 1970. Emphasizing Picasso’s graphic works, this exhibition demonstrates the artist’s lifelong interest and extraordinary versatility in drawing and printmaking. Picasso meticulously dated his prints, particularly in his series, keeping close track of the development of his art. The works on view, executed in all of the most important printmaking techniques – etching, engraving, drypoint, aquatint, lithography, and linocut.
Picasso. Juego de ojos. Colección
Museo Picasso, Málaga
14 March – 11 September 2016
Exhibition of 43 works selected from the museum’s own collections of drawings, prints, illustrated books and ceramics focusing on one of Picasso’s artistic obsessions, the gaze, displayed as a chronological survey beginning with The eyes of the artist and concluding with the Head of the Bearded Man II and allowing the viewer to follow Picasso’s stylistic and technical variety.
Picasso: The Artist and His Muses
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
11 June – 2 October 2016
Exhibition examining the significance of the six women who were inspirational to his artistic development: Fernande Olivier, Olga Khokhlova, Marie-Thérèse Walter, Dora Maar, Françoise Gilot and Jacqueline Roque. Picasso’s innovations in painting, drawing, print and sculpture are conveyed through recurring motifs such as the seated woman and reclining nude. Created by Art Centre Basel in collaboration with the Vancouver Art Gallery and curated by Katharina Beisiegel.
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman collection
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
25 June – 9 October 2016
Exhibition presents 33 artworks from the collection of Jacques and Natasha Gelman, including self-portrait paintings and drawings by Frida Kahlo, and major examples of Diego Rivera’s canvas paintings. Alongside these works are over 50 photographs by figures such as Edward Weston, Lola Alvarez Bravo and Frida’s father, Guillermo Kahlo, which provide insights into the artists’ worlds and their intriguing relationship.
Picasso Linocuts from the British Museum
Lady Lever Art Gallery
Port Sunlight, Wirral
Merseyside
24 June 2016 – 8 January 2017
17 linocuts from three experimental series created by Picasso in 1962: Jacqueline Reading, portraying Picasso’s recent bride Jacquline Rocque; the rare entire set of progressive proofs of Still Life under the Lamp; and key prints from the Nude Woman at a Spring series, which was inspired by a figure in Manet’s Déjeuner sur l’Herbe. The first two sets were acquired by the British Museum in 2013 and this display is the first time that they have been shown outside London.
The display is accompanied by a brief video of an interview with Hidalgo Arnéra, Picasso’s collaborator in the production of his technically complex linocuts.
Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
15 June – 23 October 2016
Major new addition to Waddesdon’s contemporary art collection, and part of its programme to work with contemporary artists. A pair of sculptures by Joana Vasconcelos has been installed on the North Front. In the form of a giant pair of candlesticks made of glass wine bottles (from Château Lafite Rothschild), set on a steel armature and lit from within with fibre-optic strands, they symbolise the Rothschild family’s connection to the world of wine.
Joana Vasconcelos (b.1971) lives and works in Lisbon and exhibits internationally, most recently at the Château de Versailles and at the Manchester City Art Gallery.
Video showing Vasconcelos and her team construct the sculptures, with Lord Rothschild talking about them.
San Sebastián
San Telmo Museum of Basque History &
Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea
17 June – 2 October 2016
The main art exhibition of this year’s European Capital of Culture: San Sebastián (jointly with Wroclaw, Poland) throughout 2016. Shows 300 art works on the theme of war and peace. Includes works by Goya, Murillo, Picasso, Ribera, Zurbarán as well as Rubens, and 20th-century and contemporary works by Le Corbusier and Hans Haacke.
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