The Echo of Picasso

In honor of the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death (April 8, 1973), Almine Rech is pleased to present The Echo of Picasso, a wide-ranging group exhibition curated by Eric Troncy, spanning across its two locations in the city, opening November 8, 2023.

The exhibition offers two perspectives: one that revisits a time in history wherein Picasso's contemporaries sought to challenge his work, and a second in which living artists today echo the Spanish artist’s oeuvre. As Michael Fitzgerald* described, "instead of being a potential adversary in life, in death, Picasso became a voluminous encyclopedia of ideas and images for artists.” 50 years since Picasso's death, the contemporary works on view still echo the formal, technical, and conceptual inventions of one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. The exhibition also allows us to see Picasso in a contemporary perspective.

*Excerpt from the text by Michael Fitzgerald - Kluger family Professor of Art History Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut - in Museo Picasso Malaga catalog, "The Echo of Picasso."

The Echo of Picasso will be opening simultaneously at both Almine Rech locations on Wednesday, November 8, from 5 to 7pm in Tribeca, and from 6 to 8pm in the Upper East Side that same evening.

Rare works by Pablo Picasso, including one of only six Glass of Absinthe sculptures from 1914 (on loan from Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso), will be on view, alongside those by Willem de Kooning, Francis Bacon (on loan from the Museum of Modern Art New York), Louise Bourgeois, George Condo, Jeff Koons, Farah Atassi, and Genesis Tramaine, among others (listed below).

The Echo of Picasso is curated by Eric Troncy, French art critic, curator, and Director of the Consortium Museum in Dijon, France and Editor-in-chief of FROG Magazine.

Artists to be featured in The Echo of Picasso, New York, are as follows:
Joe Andoe, Karel Appel, Farah Atassi, Francis Bacon, Cristina BanBan, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Oliver Beer, Louise Bourgeois, Brian Calvin, César, Antoni Clavé, George Condo, Timothy Curtis, Jose Dávila, Urs Fischer, Jorge Galindo and Pedro Almodóvar, Jameson Green, Peter Halley, David Hockney, Thomas Houseago, Marcus Jahmal, Rashid Johnson, Willem de Kooning, Jeff Koons, Maria Lassnig, Cristina de Miguel, Annie Morris, Louise Nevelson,  Pablo Picasso, George Rouy, Claire Tabouret, Genesis Tramaine, Rebecca Warren, Zio Ziegler.