Economy: Picasso
The show forms a part of Archivo F.X.: On Zero Economy, a project by Pedro G. Romero for the Museu Picasso in Barcelona. The FX Archive examines taxonomies and classifications that relate language to reality, and the exhibition is the result of a series of operations that take Picasso's aesthetic creation as the basis of the contemporary economy of art.
The exhibition is a part of the project entitled Archivo F.X.: On Zero Economy conceived by Pedro G. Romero for the Museu Picasso in Barcelona, that comprises three laboratories (Exchanges, Partitions and Friendships) and the publication Economy.
Economy: Picasso is at once an open exhibition and the conclusion of an experiment, the staging of a series of operations made by the FX Archive that consider Picasso's creation as the basis of the present economy of art. The show opens with an emblematic document, the letter Picasso sent his friend Joaquim Bas (1897) in which he described his impressions after having paid his first visit to the Prado Museum, and closes with another, a copy of Nuestra España review published by the Committee for the Defence of the Spanish Republic in April 1938, in which Picasso appears as a contributor and director of the Prado. Between the two documents we find a series of eccentric readings of Picasso's work, structured in seven areas that bring us again into contact with some of the artist's creations — toolboxes to begin to dismantle the Picasso industry and the implications this could have for the contemporary economy of art.
Chronicle of the exhibition
Artworks of the Collection
Pablo Picasso
1899
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1900
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1903
Pablo Picasso
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1900
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Pablo Picasso
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1928
Pablo Picasso
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1930
Pablo Picasso
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Pablo Picasso
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Pablo Picasso
Economy: Picasso
This book was published within the framework of Archivo F.X.: On Zero Economy, a project by Pedro G. Romero for the Museu Picasso, based on a commission by the previous director Pepe Serra. The publication puts together the diverse thematic fields and all the works that were presented in the exhibition «Economy: Picasso», and reproduces photographs of the exhibition. It also includes a review of the laboratories that, under the name of Exchanges, Partitions and Friendships, were held before and during the exhibition. Moreover, it contains two essays, written especially for the occasion, one by Ángel González and the other by Georges Didi-Huberman, as well as a re-print of a well-known text by Rosalind Krauss.
