Pre-sales open for the exhibition ‘Picasso the Stranger’

Pre-sales for the exhibition are open from today, the day in which we remember the bombing of the city of Guernica. Picasso the strangerscheduled to Royal Palace of Milan from 20 September 2024 to 2 February 2025. Promoted by the Municipality of Milan – Culture and produced by Palazzo Reale with Marsilio Arte, the exhibition is created thanks to the collaboration of the Musée national Picasso-Parismain lender, and of Palais de la Porte Dorée with the Musée National de l’Histoire de l’Immigration. Picasso the Stranger presents more than 80 works by the artist, as well as documents, photographs, letters and videos, in a project that opens up more reflections on the themes of hospitality, immigration and relationships with others. The idea for the exhibition comes from the curator’s book Annie Cohen-Solal Picasso. A Life as a Foreigner, an international success published in Italy by Marsilio and due out on 30 April 2024. “I found documents, fingerprints and photographs that demonstrate how the police considered Picasso an alien and an outcast,” he explains Annie Cohen-Solal, currently a professor at Bocconi University in Milan. Tickets are available on the marsilioarte.vivaticket.it platform.