The exhibition 'Dialogues with Picasso' opens the 'Birthing Picasso' programme at the City Arts Center in Round Rock, promoted by the Málaga City Council.
The Museo Casa Natal Picasso takes its work to Texas. The City Arts Center exhibition space in the city of Round Rock has hosted since the presentation last Thursday the exhibition "Dialogues with Picasso", which brings together nearly fifty works on paper by Pablo Picasso alongside pieces by artists such as Joan Brossa, José Luis Cuevas, George Condo, George Segal and André Masson, also present in the municipal museum's collections.
The show is the first of the Birthing Picasso programme, a project promoted by the Ayuntamiento de Málaga, through the Área de Cultura y Patrimonio Histórico, and various Texan cultural institutions that plans to organise two temporary exhibitions a year in this American city.
The museum's facade, reproduced in Texas
The exhibition, curated by Mario Virgilio Montañez, head of Cultural Promotion at the Museo Casa Natal Picasso, proposes to observe how artists after Picasso have taken elements, figures and themes from his work to adapt them to their own languages. The selection allows discovering affinities and convergences around the painter from abstraction, geometry and figuration, with aesthetic proposals arising in Spain, France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Ecuador and Mexico.
As part of the installation, the facade of the Museo Casa Natal Picasso has been reproduced in the space, so that the access to the exhibition evokes the entrance to the Málaga museum.
The City Arts Center of Round Rock is a newly built building inaugurated at the beginning of 2026. It shares the building with Málaga House, managed by the Texas-European Chamber of Commerce and aimed at fostering technological and business exchanges between Texas and Málaga.
Lectures and workshops
In addition to the exhibition programme, Birthing Picasso will include lectures, workshops and training activities to bring the artist's work closer and maintain a continuous cultural exchange between Málaga and Texas.
The launch of the programme has been accompanied by other activities, which began on Sunday, October 25 with "Happy Birthday, Pablo!", a celebration with live music in the plaza del Ayuntamiento de Round Rock on the occasion of the 145th anniversary of the painter's birth. Afterwards, at the City Arts Center, "Avoiding the Grim Reaper. Picasso against Illness and Death" was presented and the talk "Málaga Identity", by Mario Virgilio Montañez, and the colloquium "Understanding Picasso", with Enrique Mallén, Mario Virgilio Montañez and Luis Lafuente, were held.
The initiative is part of the agreement of intentions signed by the Ayuntamiento de Málaga last July to promote the presence of the Casa Natal in this American city, according to the Consistorio. The project has the participation of the Round Rock Chamber of Commerce and the Texas-European Chamber of Commerce Foundation.
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