The important exhibition curated by Fernando Castro Flórez displays a selection of 300 works including drawings and engravings from the Casa Natal Picasso Museum in Malaga.

A particularly significant cultural operation, also on a symbolic level, considering the consistency of this loan from Spain which offers the Italian public a unique opportunity to encounter Picasso's work, among the initiatives carried out on this occasion at an international level. Picasso's graphic work is of enormous importance within his entire artistic production. From the series of the Vollard Suites to the engravings made at the end of his life, a truly frenetic cycle in which he revisits all his imagery, from the central theme of the "painter and the model" to the reconsideration of the history of art (in a re-presentation, from the personal perspective, of the influences of Raphael, Rembrandt, Velázquez, Degas or Manet), introducing humorous elements that sometimes slip into the grotesque. The exhibition, precisely by virtue of the considerable number of works on display created in different periods of his activity, ranging from 1905 to 1972, offers a complete review of Picasso's imagery, and allows you to rediscover works of exceptional interest.

"Picasso's name alone embodies the expression of a new thought in the field of aesthetics": Duchamp (1943), the very ironic artist who had the audacity to put a urinal on a pedestal (signed by a pseudonym) , believed that Picasso's main contribution was that of having started from scratch and having been able to maintain, at every moment of his long artistic career, an enviable freshness. “Picasso" - adds Duchamp - "in each of his styles, underlined the intention to free himself from previous conquests. One of the most important differences between Picasso and most of his contemporaries is that, to this day, he has never shown any sign of weakness or repetition in his uninterrupted flow of masterpieces". Picasso, true modern myth, point of reference for the avant-gardes, ended up being "contemporary" with the changes in art that occurred after the Second World War. While he continued to develop his passionate relationship with painting, without ever giving up his figurative presence, aesthetic proposals such as expressionism emerged abstract and informalism, pop and optical-kinetic art, minimalism and conceptualism, land art and happeging.