“Creativity and passion are fundamental to any type of innovation, to rethinking oneself and being open to new opportunities”, explains Lionel Aeschlimann, Managing Partner at Mirabaud. In a spirit of sharing and dialogue, Mirabaud has been actively involved in promoting contemporary art for several decades. “It is innovation that has built our heritage over the last 200 years”.
Founded in 1819, Mirabaud is today an international banking and financial group – owned and managed by the 7th generation of the founding family – offering its services from 16 cities around the world. The spirit of dialogue and personal exchange valued so highly by the Mirabaud Group is fully reflected in the promotion of contemporary art and artists. True to its commitments, the Group has forged close ties with various cultural institutions, artists and major artistic events in the countries where it is active. This approach also reflects the Mirabaud Group’s personalised, innovative and long-term vision in its wealth management activities.
With our Paris office, we are honoured to once again be supporting one of the Centre Pompidou’s flagship exhibitions, launched at a time when the French capital offers an incomparable wealth of culture. This major artistic event is a formidable source of both creative inspiration and wonder,” continues Lionel Aeschlimann.
Stéphane Jaouen, Director of Mirabaud Wealth Management in France, added: “Sponsoring this exhibition also means taking part in various celebrations organised in Paris, Madrid, Malaga and London, which pay tribute to the work of this incomparable artist, whose legacy and modernity are ever-present. We are delighted with this multi-year partnership with the Centre Pompidou, the leading cultural institution in Paris and worldwide”.
To mark the fiftieth anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s passing, the Centre Pompidou is organising “Picasso. Dessiner à l’infini” (Picasso. Endlessly Drawing) in collaboration with the Musée national Picasso-Paris. The exhibition highlights the most prolific part of his creation by bringing together nearly a thousand works: notebooks, drawings and engravings, most of which come from the collection of the Musée national Picasso-Paris. From his youthful studies to his final works, for Picasso, drawing was a constantly renewed place of invention around the power of the stroke, ranging from serpentine lines to hatched drawings and proliferating compositions, from the delicate nuances of pastels to the deep blacks of ink. This journey through the graphic work, a sort of obsessively kept private diary, with the notebooks being the most precious examples, immerses us in the heart of the artist’s work.
The exhibition showcases the extraordinary collection of the Musée national Picasso-Paris, coming from the artist’s studios and preserved by him until his death. The non-linear visit overturns the strict chronological order, enabling resonances to be established between different periods and contrasting well-known masterpieces with drawings presented for the first time. ‘Picasso. Dessiner à l’infini’ is the greatest retrospective ever organised of the artist’s drawings and engravings, plunging visitors into the maelstrom of Picasso’s creative processes.
Commissariat:
- Anne Lemonnier, Assistant Curator, National Museum of Modern Art
- Johan Popelard, responsible for paintings (1895-1921) and graphic arts at the Musée national Picasso-Paris
2023 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s passing, placing the year in the context of the celebration of his work in France, Spain and internationally. To celebrate Picasso’s heritage today is to question what this major oeuvre of Western modernity represents today. It means demonstrating its living, accessible and contemporary aspects. Célébration Picasso 1973-2023 was introduced by the Musée national Picasso-Paris, the leading lender and coordinator of the event, and Bernard Picasso, grandson of the artist and president of the FABA and of the Málaga Picasso Museum. It is organised around some fifty exhibitions and events to be held in reputed cultural institutions in Europe and North America and which, together, with the help of reinterpretations and original approaches, enable us to review the state of studies and comprehension of Picasso’s oeuvre. Together, the French and Spanish governments wished to support this large-scale transnational event. The commemoration will thus be punctuated by official celebratory events in France and Spain, and will conclude with a grand international symposium in December 2023, coinciding with the opening of the Picasso Studies Centre in Paris. This Celebration embodies “Picasso today” and lays the groundwork for tomorrow’s Musée national Picasso-Paris.