MoMA EXHIBITION EXPLORES PICASSO'S ICONIC GUITAR SCULPTURES
AND HIS EXPERIMENTAL PRACTICE FROM
1912 TO
1914
Picasso: Guitars
1912-1914
February 13-June 6,
2011
Special Exhibitions Gallery, Third Floor
NEW YORK, November 18,
2010—Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914 will focus on Pablo
Picasso's cardboard and sheet-metal Guitar sculptures, and the
incandescent period of material and structural innovation these sculptures
bracket in the artist's long career. The exhibition will be on view in The
Museum of Modern Art's Special Exhibitions gallery from February 13 through
June 6, 2011. Bringing together some 70 closely connected collages,
constructions, drawings, mixed-media paintings, and photographs assembled from
over 30 public and private collections worldwide, the exhibition situates
Picasso's modest yet revolutionary Guitars within his broader studio
practice between 1912 and 1914. The exhibition is organized by Anne Umland,
Curator, with Blair Hartzell, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and
Sculpture, The Museum of Modern
Art.
The exhibition takes as its point of departure Picasso's first Guitar
construction, a sculpture made between October and December 1912. Cobbled
together from cardboard, paper, string, and wire—materials he cut, folded,
threaded, and glued—Picasso's silent instrument resembled no sculpture
that had ever been seen before. Its creation coincided with Picasso's
embrace of a wide range of what were then unconventional materials, including
cardboard, newspaper, wallpaper, sheet music, and sand. In 1914 the artist
reiterated his fragile, papery Guitar construction in more fixed and
durable sheet-metal form. In the early 1970s Picasso donated both works to The
Museum of Modern
Art.
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