00:00Picasso's works go back to the same place where, almost 80 years ago, the artist decided
00:09to expose his famous Guernica to denounce the horror of war.
00:13Picasso, the Stranger, this is the title of the exhibition promoted by the municipality
00:16of Milan, with the support as a sponsor of Biperbanca, is an exhibition that not only
00:21highlights unknown corners of the life of the painter, but also reveals the human
00:26difficulties and the difficulties he suffered as a foreigner in France, thus giving the
00:30entire exhibition a precise key to read the importance of reception.
00:35Picasso as a foreigner, as an anarchist and also as an avant-garde artist, was thrown
00:44away from the French museums, from the Academy of Fine Arts, it means that his life in France
00:49was not easy.
00:50It is an exhibition that starts as a very hard thing and ends with a victory, it means
00:58that it is an exhibition of joy, an exhibition that teaches everyone that the city must be
01:04open, open to diversity, open to the other, open to the stranger, instead of closing it.
01:12With the support of the exhibition, which can be visited from September 20 to February 2, 2025,
01:17Biperbanca has confirmed his historic commitment to promoting the dissemination of the art
01:22and culture, inviting on this occasion also to a deeper reflection.
01:27A reflection that obviously puts the artist on the same identity, but also the man, a
01:32man who had a very important life, a life of great artistic wealth in a country that
01:38was not his, so here are born reflections on the immigrant Picasso man, the Picasso man
01:44who lives in France, who tries to be welcomed in every way, even to ask repeatedly also
01:50to be able to be a French citizen and this thing will never be recognized.
01:56Despite this, he is a great artist, a great free man who has been able to make his art
02:01something really important within his identity, but also in the research of a collective
02:08that he has always sought and that he has always desired.
02:12The retrospective dedicated to the great Spanish painter was strongly wanted by the
02:16Municipality of Milan to tell unpublished facetations of the artist's identity.
02:20This is a political Picasso, a Picasso that is told through his impossibility
02:28to be a citizen, the refusal by the Louvre Museum of the donation of the Moselle d'Avignon,
02:35historical facts that have to do with the political and social life of a great artist,
02:42of a giant like Pablo Picasso.
02:44I must thank Cécile Debré and Nick Coensolal who curated the exhibition with extraordinary
02:52loans from the Picasso Museum and who will allow us to open a great exhibition that will
02:56also and above all tell the irregular story of an extraordinary figure of the art of the
03:03past and of a recent past.
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