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Meeting with Olivier Widmaier Picasso, author and producer for art and culture
Interview
On the occasion of the reopening of the Picasso Museum this October 25th, Artsper invited Picasso's grandson, Olivier Widmaier-Picasso, to make a selection of contemporary works echoing the work of the painter.
OWP: At a moment when the Musée National Picasso in Paris reopens its doors after five years of renovation works, it is interesting to see how contemporary artists can be put in relation with my grand-father's work. This selection is not meant to create consensual or forced relations, but to show how artists share a common ground. Actually, Picasso's aura is rather a constraint from which contemporary artists try to distance themselves.
OWP: The 2008 show "Picasso et les maîtres" (Picasso and the Masters) at the Grand Palais has shown, for me, how Pablo Picasso is a classical painter through the references that are common to the great painters in the history of art. But, if we think of his explorations, Picasso is also a contemporary artist: constructions, installations, recovered materials, photography - these are areas that belong to contemporary art. Picasso has also made experiments in these fields. So we can speak of echoes if we examine the practice of
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‘Pablo was Spanish, but Picasso was French’: Olivier Widmaier Picasso Reflects on His Grandfather’s Legacy
W hen Pablo Picasso died on 8 April 1973, it was clear that the world had lost a titanic cultural figure. In the New York Times’ frontpage story the next day, Alfred Barr, the founding director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, said: “We are fortunate in having been witness to his presence in our time.”
For Olivier Widmaier Picasso, then a teenager in Paris, it was life-changing. He found out about his grandfather’s death through a TV newsflash. “And it was a shock, because you don’t normally receive this kind of [personal] information on television. For me, Pablo Picasso was just the father of my mother.”
Widmaier Picasso was born in 1961, the son of Maya Picasso – daughter of the artist with his mistress and muse Marie-Thérèse Walter – and Pierre Widmaier, a former navy officer. Walter, a model, became the subject of some of Picasso’s most famous portraits, not least among them the erotic Le Rêve (The Dream), 1932, and Girl before a Mirror, from the same year. But before the great artist’s death, Widmaier Picasso had been sheltered from his fame. “We had paintings, drawings, some pictures at home, but he was somebody that I didn’t see, because he was livin
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