A GENIUS WITHOUT A PEDESTAL: Exhibition of Picasso's work in the Marseille’s MuCEM from April 27 to August 29.

The exhibition curators have tried to analyze the influence of the crafts and folk traditions in the work of Picasso, with special attention to Andalusia, Catalonia and Galicia. The exhibition highlights the depth of Picasso's relationship with the work of the artisans and his infinite curiosity to know what the others do and how they do it. In the exhibition and catalog the specialists show how Picasso merges a wide display of arts and traditions between two centuries: ceramics, hairstyles and headdresses, music, circus, bullfighting, pigeons, jewelry, assembly sculpture and cinema. Moreover the curators see in the exhibition two main lines: one linked to popular and cultural practices (the Spanish mantilla, musical instruments, circus, bulls, etc.) and another linked to pigeons, from the dovecote picture painted by his father in 1878, to the popularity of the pigeon fanciers in Spain in the late nineteenth century.