A painting by a mainland Chinese contemporary artist created by exploding gunpowder may seem an unlikely item for a Picasso exhibition, but it is among more than 190 artworks at Hong Kong’s M+ museum.
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Gunpowder Drawing No 8-A5 by Cai Guo-qiang is displayed alongside the Spanish master’s cubist study of the Sacre-Coeur Basilica in Paris.
Titled “Picasso for Asia: A Conversation”, the exhibition opening on Saturday is co-organised by M+ in the West Kowloon Cultural District and the Musee National Picasso-Paris.
With more than 60 works from the Paris museum, including some not shown outside France before, it marks the first major showcase of Picasso’s works in Hong Kong in more than a decade.
Born in Spain in 1881, Picasso spent most of his life in France and, by the time he died in 1973, was considered an enormous influence on 20th-century art.
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His works covered multiple art movements, including cubism, classicism and surrealism, from paintings and sculptures to etchings, lithographs, ceramics and more.