Picasso, the effervescence of shapes

The exhibition ‘Picasso, the effervescence of shapes’, running from 15 April to 28 August 2022, explores the place of wine and popular spirits in the work of Pablo Picasso through a wide variety of media (paintings, drawings, ceramics, films, etc.). The Foundation for Wine Culture and Civilisations has invited historian and art critic Stéphane Guégan to be the exhibition’s scientific curator. Bringing together more than eighty works, thanks in particular to the exceptional participation of the Musée National Picasso-Paris and the Museu Picasso de Barcelona, the exhibition sheds new light on Pablo Picasso’s works and reveals the effervescent creativity that inspired him throughout his life.

Representations of cafés and drinkers, variations on glass and bottle during the Cubist period, striking, sometimes dramatic evocations steeped in Catholicism or Greco-Roman mythology... The exhibition pays tribute to the artist’s prolific output and to the diversity of media used. Two original sequences at the heart of the exhibition also highlight Picasso’s fruitful relationships with poets (Guillaume Apollinaire and Paul Eluard, for example) and his work as a ceramicist. Finally, the exhibition welcomes some of Picasso’s contemporaries, such as Juan Gris or Georges Braque, and recent re-interpretations by Erró, Chéri Samba and RH.

A historian, editor and art critic, Stéphane Guégan has written various volumes on the painting and literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, from French romanticism to Picasso, to whom he has devoted various works. He has also curated noted exhibitions such as ‘The black model from Géricault to Matisse’ (Orsay, 2019) and ‘Toulouse-Lautrec, resolutely modern’ (Grand-Palais, 2019).

Nos remerciements vont à l’ensemble des institutions et collectionneurs particuliers qui, grâce à leur générosité, ont rendu cette exposition possible :

• Musée national Picasso-Paris
• Museu Picasso de Barcelona

En France :

• Musée Cantini, Marseille
• Musée Magnelli, Vallauris
• Musée Picasso, Antibes
• Musée de Grenoble
• Cité de la céramique Sèvres – Limoges
• Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP)
• Galerie MAGNIN-A
• Collection De Bueil et Ract-Madoux
• Hélène Bailly Gallery
• Bruno de Serbriant
• Stéphane Guégan

A l’étranger :

• Vivanco. Bodega – Fundación – Experiencias
• Fundación Bancaja
• MACBA, Barcelone
• Musée d’art de Sabadell

Ainsi que tous les prêteurs qui ont souhaité garder l’anonymat.

This exhibition has been made possible by the support of numerous patrons.

Scenography: Atelier Maciej Fiszer

Boris Lipnitzki (1887-1971) - Studio Lipnitzki
Pablo Picasso dans l'atelier Madoura , Vallauris, en 1948
Musée national Picasso – Paris
© Roger-Viollet / Studio Lipnitzki © Succession Picasso 2022 © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris) / Mathieu Rabeau