The Cultural Work of FUNIBER and UNEATLANTICO have celebrated the inauguration of Picasso’s series “Le cocu magnifique” and “El entierro del Conde de Orgaz,” at the Ateneo Cultural El Albéitar, in collaboration with the University of León (ULE).
The exhibition, which will be open to the public until October 27 from Monday to Friday from 12:00 to 14:00 and from 18:00 to 20:00, is held as part of the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Ateneo’s Cultural Department.
The presentation of both Picasso series, curated by Federico Fernández Diez, director of the Cultural Work of FUNIBER and UNEATLANTICO, took place in the main hall, as an exceptional exhibition space, dressed with Picasso’s original displays.
Isidoro Martínez Martín, vice-rector of Social Responsibility, Culture, and Sports of the ULE, has been in charge of presenting the event. In the event, he declared his intention that in the 25th anniversary of the Cultural Activities of the ULE, the contribution of the Cultural Work of FUNIBER and UNEATLANTICO will be highlighted and recognized.
The vice-rector thanked Dr. Santos Gracia, President of FUNIBER, and Federico Fernández for their important and permanent support to the cultural activities of the ULE with the contribution of quality exhibitions of recognized international prestige.
Also present at the event were Miguel Ángel Barreales, the cultural programmer of the ULE, and César Ordoñez Pascua, the director of the area of Cultural Activities of the ULE, who has always expressed his gratitude to FUNIBER and its cultural work in each and every one of the numerous exhibitions carried out through this collaboration.
In ‘”Le cocu magnifique,” Picasso initiates a style of drawing, typical of the period that came to be called the “old savage” and that develops with greater intensity; graphic and erotic in the surrealist series of “The Burial of the Count of Orgaz,” where he frees himself from the corset of illustration hatching freely the surrealist mode emerging from the unconscious, without any subjection to the dictatorship of reason.
For its part, “The Burial of the Count of Orgaz” is a collection that Picasso published in 1969 with texts by the poet Rafael Alberti. The exhibition depicts a surrealist experience of the Count of Orgaz where eroticism and pornography take center stage. It is a series of “deliberately surrealist” engravings that confirm Picasso’s knowledge of the techniques used by André Breton’s group.