Oviedo (EFE).- The Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias hosts from this Thursday until October 29 the photographic exhibition Picasso and Antonio Cores. El Encuentro, a sample of more than sixty photographs with which the Spaniard portrayed the genius from Malaga after having the opportunity to meet him in the south of France in 1966.
Antonio Cores, a photographer from Cádiz but Asturian by adoption, met Picasso in the spring of 1966, thanks to the bullfighter and mutual friend, Luis Miguel Dominguín and, from that moment on, he traveled and lived with the painter from Malaga, taking portraits of him on numerous occasions. until conforming the collection of photographs that are now exhibited in the Fine Arts, coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the painter’s death.
The exhibition includes a total of 64 images taken by Cores, as well as another snapshot taken by Picasso himself to immortalize his second wife, Jacqueline, accompanied by the Asturian photographer on the terrace of his residence in Mougins, in the south of France.
The set of images is a journey through the life, work and friendships of the painter from the perspective of one of the few Spanish photographers who was able to get close to Picasso in this way, so intimate and at the same time professional, to portray him.
Four key places for the painter
Divided into four sections -Mougins, Antibes, Vallauris and Cannes-, the ground floor of the Velarde Palace invites you to visit these four key places for the painter and to look into the artistic world that Picasso established through his works and his relationships, this relationship being between character and work the protagonist in the photographs
The last of the stages, Cannes, is made up of a single photograph, in which Pablo Picasso appears with three of his closest friends -Rafael Alberti, Luis Miguel Dominguín and Antonio Gades- in a Chinese restaurant in the French city.
The presentation of the exhibition has coincided with the day that Antonio Cores (1936-2020) would have turned 87 and his son Adrián participated in the inauguration, accompanied by the director of the Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias, Alfonso Palacio; the general director of Culture and Heritage, Pablo León; the Councilor for Culture of Oviedo, David Álvarez.
The son of the Asturian photographer has extolled the figure of his father by emphasizing that, through the photographs, “you can see the evident cultural and artistic concern that he possessed”. EFE