Thomas said Picasso’s masterpiece Guernica, on the horrors of Spanish civil war, dealt with many of the themes that she did. Photograph: Vinciane Lebrun/Voyez-VousĪ darkened room, In Times of War, looks at Picasso’s work during the second world war alongside a piece by the US artist Mickalene Thomas, from her Resist series examining the civil rights demonstrations and the Black Lives Matter movement. Obi Okigbo’s triptych, Landscapes of My Childhood Remembered. Hanging alongside is the Nigerian artist Obi Okigbo’s triptych, Landscapes of My Childhood Remembered, which examines ancestral stories and ritual, echoing the loss and trauma after the Biafran war. One room, entitled Imaginary Journeys, explores Picasso’s personal collection of African objects, and how such pieces were appropriated by the avant-garde artists of the early 20th century. We put these questions on the table and discuss them without claiming to have all the answers. “Bringing in new and contemporary artists shows that we’re open to all the debates on Picasso. “We wanted to open up the museum, reach a wider audience and bring in all those debates: on women, post-colonial issues and politics,” said the museum’s president, Cécile Debray. There is also renewed debate over western artists’ use of African artefacts, which Picasso collected. Photograph: Florian Kleinefenn/Courtesy Galerie Magnin-AĪs museums across the world from New York to Málaga and Bucharest prepare 50th anniversary exhibitions this year, the Paris Picasso museum chose not to flinch at controversy surrounding the artist, whose troubled private life – namely his allegedly callous treatment of his wives, lovers and muses – has become more of a focus for young audiences than his work since the #MeToo movement. One of the works that forms part of the exhibition by Chéri Samba of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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