by Guido Vitali and Pier Matteo Carnaroli
Picasso devoured painting, sculpture, ceramics, any manifestation of art that the twentieth century could offer. He drained at the source all the signs, shapes and colours, which previous centuries had patiently collected, founding Western figurative culture. Picasso the cannibal, who experiences from the first to the last day of his frenetic and astonishing life, all the galaxies of human creativity with a moving passion and freshness, because the vigorous force of youth – like the birth of a spring of water – in its infinite maturity is fed obsessively, to become in the last stretch of his production, an overwhelming cascade of primeval ideas.
The use of the mixed media technique is proof that the Malaga master uses everything he needs to make his incessant creative enthusiasm immediately tangible.
At the next Modern and Contemporary Art auction in Milan on the 24th of November, a mixed media work from 1972 will be hesitated. Its peculiarity is that it has been voraciously worked on both sides, being in fact two distinct works, in which Picasso is raving to grasp the sign that will make him forever the immortal giant of modernity.
