The exhibition Picasso: Untitled presents 50 works from the artist's last period (1963-73) —his most prolific period, closest to our time and, probably, the most unknown— ranging from ceramics, engraving or drawing , going through large-format paintings. 50 contemporary artists propose new readings on them.
The fifty works by Picasso contained in the exhibition and in the homonymous catalog that accompanies it have undergone a process of redefinition. 50 international artists, each one in conversation with a work, have created a new title and description that transforms, interrogates and redefines it. Building potential stories, each artist offers us a radically contemporary perspective of the work produced during the last decade of Picasso's life, between 1963 and 1973. In this invitation to play with Picasso, the project opens spaces to questions latent in the works and essential in our current look such as race, class, gender, identity, anthropocentrism or empowerment.
The new titles and descriptions, some produced through speculative processes and others through poetic or political interpretations, collectively create a composite portrait of our current perceptions of Picasso's legacy and influence. This project, which occupies four rooms of La Casa Encendida, within the framework of the Picasso Celebration, invites us to develop an active gaze, to question aspects of our perception of Picasso's work and, at the same time, of ourselves, of our values and our contemporaneity.
The 50 invited artists participating in the exhibition are: Adrián Villar Rojas, Agnieszka Kurant, Ahmet Öğüt, Albert Serra, Alejandro Cesarco, Antoni Muntadas, Asunción Molinos Gordo, Black Quantum Futurism, Cabello/Carceller, Camille Henrot, Christine Sun Kim, Christopher Kulendran Thomas, DIS, The Count of Torrefiel, Emilie Baltz, Erwin Wurm, Esther Ferrer, Frida Orupabo, Holly Herndon, Isabel Coixet, Iván Argote, Janaina Tschäpe, Jill Magid, Joy Harjo, Johanna Hedva, Jumana Manna, Klára Hosnedlová, Leonor Serrano Rivas, Lydia Ourahmane, Maria Hassabi, Mercedes Azpilicueta, Niño de Elche, Omsk Social Club, ORLAN, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Pedro Neves Marques, Pol Taburet, Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, Roméo Mivekannin, Ryan Gander, Sara Ramo, Simon Denny, Simon Fujiwara, Sissel Tolaas, Tala Madani, Taryn Simon, The Otolith Group, Trevor Paglen, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, and Tyra Tingleff.
Picasso: Untitled is a project by La Casa Encendida and the Almine and Bernard Ruiz-Picasso Foundation (FABA), curated by Eva Franch i Gilabert as part of the celebrations for the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso. It is organized with the support of the National Commission for the Commemoration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the death of the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.
