The Picasso Museum in Málaga (MPM) will be open every day from 10am to 6pm (last ticket at 5:30pm) over the coming bank holiday weekend (puente de la Constitución) for those who wish to take advantage of an extra day's holiday to visit the exhibitions.
What's more, on Sunday 8th, as on every Sunday, visitors can enjoy free entry at the end of the afternoon, on this occasion from 4pm onwards.
Visitors to the art gallery can enjoy the permanent collection, which is organised in chronological fashion and which reveals the huge extent of the artist's work over his lifetime, focussing on his constant desire to explore different mediums and methods of expression.
Also not to be missed is the temporary exhibition - 'Calder-Picasso' - an exploration of the creative links between two of the most seminal figures of 20th century art: American Alexander Calder (1898-1976) and Málaga-born Pablo Picasso (1881-1973).
With over 100 works of art, the exhibition focuses on one specific key connection between Calder and Picasso found specifically in their exploration of the void, or the absence of space, which both artists defined from the figure through to abstraction.
Both Picasso and Calder were born in the late 19th century and their respective fathers were classically trained artists. They both left their home countries and went to work in France, where they constantly reinvented themselves, destroying their own precedents and those of other artists, and renewing the art of their time, along with our way of perceiving it. While there are certain parallels and synergies in the work of these two icons of modernism, they never came to share their artistic ideas, beyond a mutual interest in popular entertainments such as the circus.
