Benguela – An exhibition of 20 works of lithographs and engravings by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso will be on display for the public from September 14th (Saturday), at the National Archeology Museum, located in the city of Benguela.
According to a note from the Angolan insurance company ENSA to which ANGOP had access on Monday, the exhibition was already done in the cities of Lubango and Luanda.
The exhibition of lithographs and engravings by the Spanish artist corresponds to two collections which are “The Burial of the Count of Orgaz” and “The Double Flute”, from the Ibero-American University Foundation (FUNIBER).
This foundation loaned paintings produced by the most universal Spanish artist between the years 1930 and 1968.
The collection "The burial of the Count of Orgaz", emerged as a visual part of a surrealist automatic writing experiment carried out by Picasso in a Spanish manuscript dated 1957 and 1958, and a proposal by the poet Rafael Alberti through a poetic text praising the creativity of the Spanish artist.
In turn, the collection "The Double Flute", Picasso cultivates the academic nude, without the presentation of male or female sexual organs, with remarkable realism, but also recreating characters from Roman and Greek mythology such as the faun, Minotaur and the God Bacchus.
With these collections being exhibited free of charge, the Spanish Embassy, for once in Africa, offers the first Angolans the possibility of enjoying works by this universal artist.
Happening through a partnership with the Angolan insurance company ENSA and after a generous offer from FUNIBER to be able to enjoy these collections in Angola for approximately a year, the works have previously been exhibited in Luanda and Lubango, and, after Benguela, they may also be presented in provinces of Bié, Huambo and, finally, again in Luanda, where its closure takes place.
The opening of the exhibition will be made by the governor of the province of Benguela, Luís Nunes.
The author, Pablo Picasso was born in Málaga, on October 25, 1881 and died in Mougins, France, on April 8, 1973.
He was a Spanish painter, sculptor, ceramicist, set designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his life in France. He is known as the co-founder of Cubism alongside Georges Braque, inventor of constructed sculpture, the inventor of protection and the variety of styles he helped to develop and explore.
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