Barcelona (EFE) painting and the great “influence” it has had on the arts of the 20th century and today.
In statements to the press, after accompanying the Minister of Culture, Miquel Iceta, on a visit to the museum on the day commemorating the 50th anniversary of the artist’s death, Guigon pointed out that there are many debates on this issue and that ” each gaze is a contemporary gaze and it is important to create debate without intervening too directly”.
Guigon recalled that this year marks the 60th anniversary of the creation of the Museu Picasso in Barcelona, the first to be created and that it was done at the will of the artist himself and that shows the relationship that the artist from Malaga had with his “city of adoption”.
Picasso and Miró in a new exhibition at the Barcelona museum
He has said of the exhibition that the museum is preparing on the relationship between Picasso and Joan Miró, who met in Barcelona and were very close friends, “it will have great international repercussions.”
He has also pointed out that the work “Bust of a young woman”, which is exhibited in the Reina Sofía Museum, will be in storage in Barcelona for a while, on the occasion of an exhibition to be held in the city of Barcelona in 2004.
On the other hand, Guigon has stated that in the month of March the Picasso Museum practically recovered the influx figures of March 2019 when it received 87,000 visitors.
He has also highlighted that before the pandemic, Barcelonan visitors to the museum were 4% and now the Spanish public, which also includes the many Barcelonans who visit the site, represents 30% of the total.