Pablo Picasso, maestro dell’incisione

The exhibition leads the visitor through thematic groups that showcase the variety and richness of Picasso's oeuvre: Portraits and the Human Figure, Bullfighting, Mythology, Paraphrase, Animals, Artist and Model, Still Life, Eros and Death.

In this way, the public can not only follow the chronological evolution of each iconography, but also, and above all, its transposition into various graphic techniques: drypoint, etching, linocut, lithography, and aquatint, produced in black and white or large-format color. Graphic art was never a secondary theme for the artist; on the contrary, he devoted himself to it constantly, making it the object of research and an experimental nature that he pursued throughout his life.

The Mendrisio exhibition therefore offers a unique opportunity to admire works of extraordinary beauty and understand the various aspects of centuries-old, complex, and aesthetically refined techniques.