WE SPEAK PICASSO

#WeSpeakPicasso

We Speak Picasso

This 2023 #WeSpeakPicasso – We Speak Picasso in the city. We’ll talk about Picasso, and we’ll do it like him: boldly, but without renouncing rigor. We’ll talk to Barcelona: we’ll discover the history that brought Picasso and the city together and the corners that the artist explored. We’ll talk in a Mediterranean language, unique, rich; a versatile, literary, surreal, daring language, but also sharp and sensitive.

'' [...] jumping and dancing until you run out of breath – somersaulting – tumbling pirouettes – claws with webbing wings caught between the teeth of the trap-Pablo Picasso.

Pablo Picasso arrived in Barcelona with his family in 1895, at the age of 13, and experienced his heyday of youth in our city. Here he would attend classes at the "Llotja" School of Fine Arts, he carried out his first studies there, published his first illustration, produced his first engraving and his first sculpture, his first solo exhibition... and would make friends for life. Nine years later, in 1904, he left for Paris for good and only returned to Barcelona on a few occasions, such as in 1917, when he stayed here for six months on the occasion of the premiere of the ballet Parade at the Gran Teatre del Liceu.

Picasso loved Barcelona and the Museu Picasso is the most obvious proof of that. The Museum would not have opened its doors in 1963 on Carrer de Montcada if it had not been, on the one hand, for the will of the artist himself and, on the other, for the determination and commitment of several people: firstly, his personal secretary and great friend Jaume Sabartés, whose collection of Picasso works was the original core of the Museum's collections; the artist's wife, Jacqueline Picasso; members of Barcelona's civil society, admirers and friends of Picasso, especially the Gaspar and Gili families; and in the last instance, Barcelona City Council.

But the history of the Museum would not be the same without the key date of 1970, the year in which Picasso decided to donate to the city of Barcelona all the works that until then had been kept by his relatives at his home on Passeig de Gràcia.

#WeSpeakPicasso

Now, 60 years later and hundreds of thousands of visitors from all over the world afterwards, it’s time to return to the Museum and look at it with different eyes.

We Speak Picasso is an initiative of the Museu Picasso that seeks to arouse curiosity about the artist's presence and ties to Barcelona. We want to establish a dialogue with the public, and forge well-formed opinions about Picasso. We want to talk, dialogue, reason, debate and question if necessary. Always based on knowledge.

We Speak Picasso is an appeal to the citizens of Barcelona (and all of Catalonia) and invites them to actively participate in the activities planned as part of the celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the Museu Picasso and the 50th anniversary of the artist's death.

It is the opportunity to get to know the artist. To discover the person, and to rediscover the Museu Picasso. To admire the artist from our home.

Programme of activities

On the occasion of the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the creation of the Museu Picasso in Barcelona and the 50th anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso, a programme of activities has been designed, inside and outside the Museum, in close cooperation with entities and institutions of the city in order to build local public loyalty and make the Museu Picasso visible as a social space for democratic access to culture.

Shows, concert cycles, activities in libraries, schools and institutes, talks, training activities, games and street shows; so that in 2023, all of Barcelona breathes Picasso.

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