The Shared Workshop. Picasso, Fín, Vilató, Xavier
This exhibition examines the 'bond of printmaking' that united four artists in the same family: Picasso, J. Fín, Vilató and Xavier. They all made prints an essential part of their oeuvre, shared the same interest in exploring different techniques and the same devotion to art.
In 1939, J. Fín and Vilató were among the political refugees who fled Spain and ended up on the beach at Argelès after the devastation of the Spanish Civil War. Picasso, their uncle, got them out of the concentration camp at Argelès and managed to relocate them to Paris, where they would spend a few months. During their stay, Picasso took them to Roger Lacourière's workshop, where the two young artists discovered the intaglio printing technique they would continue to explore during the rest of their careers. This taste for prints, the happy times and the technical knowhow of J. Fín and Vilató was transmitted and shared with Xavier, Vilató's son, who represented the third generation of this family of artists.
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The Shared Studio. Picasso, Fín, Vilató, Xavier
With the organisation of the exhibition «The shared workshop», the Museu Picasso links once again the work of the artist with other members of his family: his nephews J. Fín and Vilató and the son of the latter, Xavier.
J. Fín and Vilató grew up surrounded by art, and their uncle, a permanently present figure, helped them to channel their creative vocation, accompanying them in their initiation into the world of engraving and prints. The catalogue that accompanies the exhibition takes as its main axis the unknown world of the printing workshops in which the four artists worked, especially in Lacourière-Frelaut in Paris. The printing craftsmen of the French capital and also of Barcelona, are the authentic protagonists of this story. By means of their mastery we are able to discover the personality and peculiarities of the printed work of each of the artists of the Picasso family and how they were helped to develop their talent. The pages of this book give evidence of the love that all of them, artists and craftsmen, felt for printing, in any of their multiple manifestations, and the profound complicity that was established between them.
