Overview
- More than 130 paintings, sculptures, drawings and ceramics arrive from Musée national Picasso–Paris, Louvre Abu Dhabi’s holdings, regional lenders and international institutions.
- Curators Cécile Debray, Virginie Perdrisot-Cassan and Aisha AlAhmadi frame Picasso’s practice through recurring approaches to the body such as schematisation, incarnation, hybridisation, petrification and stylisation.
- The exhibition spotlights dialogues with Arab artists, featuring works by Dia Al Azzawi, Jewad Selim, Shakir Hassan Al Said, Ramses Younan and Baya Mahieddine.
- A dedicated gallery engages Guernica’s legacy with Dia Al Azzawi’s Elegy to My Trapped City, Dora Maar’s process photographs and an Arabic poetry recording by Abdul Wahab Al Bayati.
- Key loans come from institutions including the Musée du Louvre, Mobilier National, Mathaf, the Dalloul Art Foundation, Meem Gallery and the Barjeel Art Foundation, coordinated with France Muséums.