PICASSO AND THE THEATER
21 October 2006 – 21 January 2007
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt www.schirn.de

fig.: Pablo Picasso: Costume Design for the Chinese Conjurer, 1917. Watercolor 28 x 19 cm. Courtesy Helft family, France. © Succession Picasso / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2006

“Picasso was a nimble mind throughout his life, always looking for new solutions and extraordinary formal answers. The universal genius realized that the theater, and especially stage design, offered him an intriguing metaphor for the method of fitting things together – a practice he had developed in his cubist constructions and employed in his paintings as well as in other unusual works. Thanks to his boundless energy, his work for the stage became a valuable instrument with which he explored innovative ideas and forms of representation.” Olivier Berggruen, curator of the exhibition. next>>>