“Me, I am quite clear: I know that I will not go to see any of the exhibitions dedicated to him if there is no precision on the darker aspects of his life.reacts the Belgian artist Cécile Barraud de Lagerieillustrator, colorist and teacher. “It’s not about censorship, it’s not about activism, it’s just about establishing facts and contextualizing. If a person has done positive things alongside their artistic career, that interests me just as much. Picasso is really a case school, because there is this ‘monstrous’ aspect, but he was not the only one. I am thinking for example of the sculptor Carl Andre, who allegedly defenestrated his wife, artist Ana Mendieta, in 1985“, she specifies.
So few exhibitions organized for the 50th anniversary of the painter’s death add this contextualization, a few events spotted by the RTBF propose to address the violent aspects of Picasso’s life: a series of conferences in Paris have looked into the subject, and the Brooklyn Museum in New York will set up, in June, an exhibition on Picasso and feminism.