Group show with the work of Ryan Gander
La Casa Encendida, Madrid
May 18, 2023- January 8, 2024
Presented by La Casa Encendida and curated by Eva Franch i Gilabert, the Picasso: Untitled exhibition is a project organised by La Casa Encendida and Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte (FABA) as part of the fiftieth anniversary celebrations of Pablo Picasso’s death.
As Bernard Ruiz-Picasso says, “Picasso never gave his works a name; his friends, agents and curators did it for him.” Based on this premise, the fifty works on display, each with a new title and description proposed by a guest artist, are transformed, interrogated and resignified through parallel stories that offer a radically contemporary perspective of Picasso’s work. Collectively, the new titles and exhibit labels—some produced through speculative processes, other through poetic or political interpretations—construct a narrative composed of our modern perceptions and the legacy and influence of Picasso.