{"id":12036,"date":"2026-09-17T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T09:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=12036"},"modified":"2026-09-17T09:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T09:00:24","slug":"major-picasso-exhibition-opens-in-romanias-timisoara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=12036","title":{"rendered":"Major Picasso exhibition opens in Romania\u2019s Timi\u0219oara"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Picasso en visite<\/em> exhibition opened at Art Encounters in Timi\u0219oara on September 17 and will run until January 17, 2027. Organized with the Picasso Museum in Antibes, it brings together 69 works by Pablo Picasso that have never previously been exhibited in Romania.<\/p>\n

The selection includes paintings, drawings, engravings, lithographs, and ceramics linked to the artist\u2019s time in Antibes and his fascination with the Mediterranean. It also features photographs by Michel Sima, who documented Picasso\u2019s stay there.<\/p>\n

The opening marks 80 years since Picasso first entered the Grimaldi Castle in Antibes on September 17, 1946. The museum\u2019s director at the time, Romuald Dor de la Souch\u00e8re, offered him a large room on the building\u2019s second floor to use as a studio.<\/p>\n

Over the following two months, Picasso created works depicting fauns, centaurs, nymphs, and fishermen alongside scenes inspired by daily life on the Mediterranean coast. He left 23 paintings and 44 drawings at the castle and donated another 78 ceramic works two years later.<\/p>\n

The building was officially renamed the Picasso Museum in 1966, becoming the world\u2019s first museum dedicated to the artist.<\/p>\n

\u201cPicasso developed a personal relationship with the museum in Antibes,\u201d said Jean-Louis Andral, the museum\u2019s director and curator of the Timi\u0219oara exhibition. \u201cIt was not only the first museum dedicated to his work but also a place that marked his biography.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Timi\u0219oara exhibition explores mythology and imaginary animals, the studio as a place of experimentation, muses and female figures, portraits, still lifes, and Mediterranean motifs.<\/p>\n

It is the first exhibition hosted at Art Encounters\u2019 new headquarters, which has museum-standard climate-control, security, and conservation systems designed to accommodate loans from international collections. The building also includes a space for young artists, an educational room for children, a library, an art bookshop, a caf\u00e9, and a garden.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe Art Encounters is continuing its mission of bringing contemporary art closer to a diverse audience by organizing exhibitions that look towards foundational figures in 20th-century art history,\u201d said foundation founder and president Ovidiu \u0218andor.<\/p>\n

A five-language audio guide is available in Romanian, English, German, Hungarian, and Serbian. The exhibition is also accompanied by a Romanian-English catalogue and an educational programme for children, young people, and teachers.<\/p>\n

Picasso en visite<\/em> can be visited from Tuesday to Sunday between 10:00 and 20:00 at Art Encounters. Ticket and admission information is available on the Art Encounters ticketing website<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Picasso en visite exhibition opened at Art Encounters in Timi\u0219oara on September 17 and will run until January 17, 2027. Organized with the Picasso Museum in Antibes, it brings together 69 works by Pablo Picasso that have never previously been exhibited in Romania. The selection includes paintings, drawings, engravings, lithographs, and ceramics linked to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}