Santillana del Mar (EFE).- The artist Rogelio López Cuenca has developed a project on Pablo Picasso that is exhibited at the Altamira Museum and that will stop at ten other national museums in Spain to remember the painter from Malaga, within the activities of the Spanish Presidency of the European Union.
“(email protected)$$oTm” is the title of this project that explores, through a multimedia installation, the link between contemporary art and the Altamira Museum, which hosts the first exhibition of the tribute to the 50th anniversary of the death of the artist from Malaga.
The project will pass, after being until October 29 in one of the cradles of world rock art, by the Museum of Underwater Archeology, in Cartagena; that of Sculpture of Valladolid, those of Ceramics and Sumptuary Arts of Valencia; and that of Roman Art of Mérida.
In Madrid it will stop at the National Museum of Decorative Arts, the Costume Museum, the Romanticism Museum and the Cerralbo Museum, as well as the Lázaro Galdiano Foundation.
The museographic facilities devised by Rogelio López Cuenca, 2022 National Prize for Plastic Arts, are specific for each of the ten venues and all will form part of the cultural activities of the Presidency of Spain of the EU.
Picasso and bullfighting
In Altamira, López Cuenca relates the figure of the great bison, the quintessential image of this center, with various pieces that allude to both the mythology of the minotaur and the tradition of bullfighting, both entwined in the popular imagination around the Picasso’s figure and his national identity.
In an interview with EFE, López Cuenca explains that his installations aim to establish a dialogue with museum collections to critically address the Picassian phenomenon.
In them, he affirms, “the survival of characteristic features of the romantic myth is intertwined, in terms of the exaltation of the figure of the creative genius, and the features of the consumption of merchandise typical of late capitalism, where culture has come to occupy a central role hitherto unknown.”
In this way, the exhibition proposals include both pieces from the artist’s archive and others created for the occasion according to the characteristics of the museums with different themes, materials or techniques.
With this he intends to relate them to his museographic discourses “as if from an intrusion, a noise similar to that caused by advertising”, explains the Andalusian artist.
journalistic complement
In addition, the project is completed with a publication in the form of a newspaper that will be free for visitors in the ten museums.
This publication includes a selection of articles by researchers and scholars both on Picasso’s work and on the diversity of ways in which the phenomenon of his contradictory fame unfolds and is consumed by contemporary society.
The publication accompanies the process of contextualizing and reflecting on the interventions in the different museums, with the aim of continuing once the exhibition project is finished.
The authors who sign the various articles are, in addition to Rogelio Lopez Cuenca himself, Paula Barreiro Lopez, Isabel Bellido, Pepa Bueno Fidel, Helena Chavez Mac Gregor, Javier Cuevas del Barrio, Santiago Eraso Beloki, Ana Garcia Alarcón, Francisco Godoy, Maria Dolores Jimenez Blanco, Beatrice Joyeux-Prunel or Antonio Javier Lopez.
Picasso’s admiration for Altamira
Picasso never visited the Altamira cave, but when he saw its published images he was shocked, to the point that the phrase attributed to him became famous: “After Altamira, everything seems decadent.”
According to López Cuenca, this influence remained present throughout his production, and this can be seen in his more than forty works and in his private collection of animal skulls, bones, photos, and various objects of primitive shapes.
That influence is now shown by López Cuenca, who for years has been developing a research project and compilation of an archive of images related to Picasso in very different formats, such as television recordings, exhibition invitations, press clippings or souvenirs.
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