3 February 2007 – 10 June 2007

Picasso - Painting Against Time

Romantic pastorales, disparate couples, nudes, cloak-and-dagger masquerades, self-portraits: these are themes that dominated Pablo Picasso’s art during the late years at Mougins (1960 -1972). In this period, a “wild,” restless Picasso - one whose paintings betray an accelerating looseness of painterly execution - is always confronted by a reflective Picasso who narrates in his drawings and graphics with precise draftsmanship and a noticeable delight in detail. This apparent division into painterly and graphic styles is interpreted by Werner Spies, curator of this exhibition, as a sign of panicked fear in the face of the steady elapse of time, as a form of resistance against temporality itself, against ones own inevitable disappearance. For in all of these works, whether executed at the easel or on paper, the artist has invested a certain quantum of time. Sixty paintings, sixty drawings, sixty graphic sheets and several “collapsible sculptures” serve to vividly embody this dialectic.

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K20 Kunstsammlung NRW
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Tuesday-Friday 10 a.m. -6 p.m., Saturday-Sunday 11 a.m. - 6 p.m., closed on Monday; every first Wednesday in Month 10 a.m. - 10 p.m.

Description of the Museum

The focus of the collection is on Western European and American modern art. K20 owns excellent individual works from Pablo Picasso to Joseph Beuys, and a large number of Surrealist works.

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