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“Picasso, the writer” looks at a lesser-known side of the Spanish artist’s genius. Málaga-born Picasso - the artist who did so much to change the course of history of Western painting during the 20th century - was also a poet.

Constantin Brancusi, Paul Cézanne, Robert Delaunay, Alberto Giacometti, Juan Gris, Vasily Kandinsky, Fernand Léger, The Lissitzky, Kazimir Malevich, Franz Marc, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Piet Mondrian, Georges Braque, Paul Klee or Henry Moore are some of the artists present in this exhibition that will be on display at Museo Picasso Málaga next February 2020.

To rethink the museum as an element that forms collective identity, to analyse its role in Europe today and to examine how it is woven into the fabric of contemporary society, leads us to the formulation of many questions which need to be discussed transversally, and which can serve as the starting point for generating critical and constructive debate.

24 September, 2019 - 2 February, 2020

Calder-Picasso will be the first exhibition in Spain to examine the creative resonances between two of the most seminal figures of 20th-century art: American artist Alexander Calder (1898–1976) and Málaga-born Pablo Picasso (1881–1973).

This is the first time that Janet Kraynak’s Please Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman's Words. Writings and Interviews> has been translated. The collection was published in 2005 by MIT Press, and is essential reading in order to understand how the artist.