Picasso: From Caricature to Metamorphoses of Style
This exhibition intends to define for the very first time the role played by distortion of the figure in Picasso's oeuvre, a theme as ethereal as it is seminal.
The distortion of figures is at once an almost intangible and a meaningful theme in Picasso's art that is explored here for the first time. Festive and ironic expressions taken from the artist's personal and professional surroundings always found expression in his work, be it in the form of caricatures, monsters, puppets, masks, grotesque beings or unreal situations. The exhibition begins with works from his early apprenticeship period, when caricature was a favourite medium, and goes on to show his use of metamorphoses of style, in which Expressionist portraits are transformed into monstrous distortions that brought an upheaval to twentieth-century aesthetic canons. So, in addition to examining the importance of caricature in Picasso's art, the show reveals how the misrepresentation of the figure became a springboard for all his pictorial experiments thanks to the combination of caricature, children's drawing, primitivism and the fragmentation of classical forms that led to the famous 'Picasso style'.
Chronicle of the exhibition
