A new exhibition exploring the relationship between Pablo Picasso and Hungarian visual artists will open on 20 June at the Móra Ferenc Museum in Szeged.
Museum director Ottó Fogas announced at a press conference on Tuesday that the exhibition, opening during the nationwide Night of Museums programme, will feature original works by Picasso alongside pieces by Hungarian artists with whom he collaborated, maintained friendships or who influenced his work.
The exhibition, titled Dear Friend, Picasso!, also aims to introduce visitors to the Spanish artist’s life and artistic legacy through immersive installations, projections and reproductions. Among the highlights will be a full-scale reproduction of Picasso’s famous anti-war painting Guernica.
According to the museum, the exhibition will display nearly 30 original works by Picasso, including nine ceramic pieces. The artworks are being loaned from Hungarian public collections, private collectors and international sources.
The exhibition, which will remain open until the end of the year, focuses primarily on Picasso’s close connections with Hungarian artists, many of whom he met in Paris during different periods of his career. The museum said Picasso formed friendships with several Hungarian painters and graphic artists, collaborated with them and, in some cases, drew inspiration from their work.
Visitors will also be able to see works by nearly 40 Hungarian artists, including Béla Czóbel, Vilmos Aba-Novák, Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka, Ödön Márffy, Lajos Tihanyi and Lajos Szalay, whom Picasso once described as the greatest graphic artist of the 20th century.
The exhibition’s title was inspired by Brassaï, born Halász Gyula, who reportedly began letters to Picasso with the phrase ‘Dear friend, Picasso!’
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