Picasso the Stranger presents over 90 works by the artist, as well as documents, photographs, letters, and videos, coming from the MNPP, the Musée National de l’Histoire de l’Immigration in Paris, and the Collection Musée Magnelli Musée de la céramique in Vallauris: a project that opens up to more reflections on the themes of hospitality, immigration, and the relationship with the other. Pablo Picasso, born in 1881 in Malaga, Spain, settled in Paris in 1904. Despite France becoming his home and his fame growing beyond national borders, the artist never obtained French citizenship: the exhibition follows Picasso's aesthetic and political trajectory, to understand how he shaped his own identity while living in the challenging condition of an immigrant.

Palazzo Reale and Marsilio Arte have created a path leading to the exhibition #roadtoPicasso which includes the publication of the volume that inspired the exhibition project and the organization of a conference at Palazzo Reale to delve into the connections between Picasso and Milan.

The exhibition explores how the condition of being a stranger influenced and shaped his identity and, in turn, prompts a reflection on contemporaneity.