Pablo Picasso, Card player II1971, Olio Su Tela, 146 x 114 cm, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark. Donation: The New Carlsberg Foundation Photo: Poul Buchard / Brøndum & Co. © Succession Pablo Picasso / Bono, Oslo 2025
In the last years of his life, Pablo Picasso, now exaggerated, performs his epochal work in an extremely productive way with tireless energy, which sometimes performs the paintings in one day, to compare intensively with the theme of the artist and his model.
This late phase of the master of Malaga, characterized by a surprisingly creative rhythm, an inheritance of extraordinary vitality and artistic freedom, is the common thread of the exhibition Pablo Picasso – The Code of PaintingReady to submit the Pomo Museum, the new Museum of Modern and contemporary art opened last February in the Norwegian city of Trondheim, a handful of kilometers of the Arctic Circle.
The route – welcomed within the spectacular Art Nouveau building of the Post Office of Trondheim which houses the private museum born from an initiative of the Reitan family who over the years has collected an imposing number of artists of the caliber of Louise Bourgeois, Katharina Fritsch, Simone Leigh, Sol Lewitt, Philippe PARRENO, Ugo Rondinone and Franz West, Remoining Faithful to Principi. Just like gender equality – you can visit from 1 August to 26 October.
Curated by scholars Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer, in close collaboration with the Fundación Almine Y Bernard Ruiz-Passasso, the exhibition will embrace over 50 paintings and a selection of thirteen hand-painted ceramic dishes and will explore some of the dominant themes of the last period of the artist, which Highlight his deliberate detachment from the conventional notions of painting.
Pablo Picasso, woman with bird, Mougins, 7 April 1971 (I). Modified oil on canvas, 72.5 x 91.5 cm. Almine and Bernard Ruiz-Picasso Foundation, Madrid © Faba Photo: Marc Domage © Succession Pablo Picasso / Bono, Oslo 2025
They also fit among the masterpieces that will land in the Norwegian city, also famous for its Gothic cathedral Hat Woman Head (1971), Bird (1971), Card player II (1971) at the Louisiana Museum of Art of the Humlebaic.
The Path, which Celebrates The Exceptional Meaning of the Late Work of Picasso, A Lasting, Decisive, Decisive and Stimulating Source of Inspiration for Contemporary Artists, was Born from a Collaboration Between Pomo, Trondheim, Stocknoc, Museum of Museum of Museum of Museum, Museum of Museum of Museum of Museum, Museum of Museum of Museum, Museum of Museum, Museum of Museum, Museum of Museum, Museum of Museum, Museum of Yourn, Museum of Yourn, Museum of Yourn, Museum of Yournig, Museum of Yournig, Museum of Yournign, Modernac, Museum of Yournig, Museum orgorg, Museum, Museum or Fund, Museum, Museum, Museum, Museum or Fundiorgnignigniorg, Museum, Museum, Museum, Museum, Museum, Museum or Fundiorgn. Bernard Ruiz Picasso and representents a unique synergy between private and public institutions in total. Scandinavia, which in 2025 and 2026 brings one of the most important artists of the twentieth century to the Northern countries.
After his debut in the Trondheim Pommel, the exhibition will in fact be the protagonist of a traveling path in Scandinavia to land in the modern Musaet in Stockholm from November 22, 2025 to April 5, 2026.
Il Pomo Mushes from today, 2025 © India Mahdavi, Paris Lodinone, Our Magic Magic, 2003. Collection. © Ugo Rondone. Photo: Valley of Sadon
With an area of 4,000 square meters spread on five floors, the Pommel brings modern and contemporary art art to the coastal city through a new permanent collection and a program of temporary exhibitions in constant evolution.
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