The Brooklyn Museum presents "It's Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby"

As part of the Picasso 1973-2023 Celebration, the fourth of the seven exhibitions scheduled in the United States opens at The Brooklyn Museum, entitled Es Pablo-mático: Picasso according to Hannah Gadsby. The exhibition examines the artist's legacy from a critical, contemporary and feminist perspective, while acknowledging the transformative power and enduring influence of her work, and will be open from June 2 to September 24.

The exhibition has been curated by Hannah Gadsby, in collaboration with Catherine Morris, Senior Curator of the Sackler Center for Feminist Art, and Lisa Small, Senior Curator of European Art, both at the Brooklyn Museum. Likewise, it has had the participation of Talia Shiroma, curatorial assistant for Arts of the Americas and Europe.

Art history student Hannah Gadsby is a Peabody Award and Emmy Award winning performer and comedian. Recognized for her comedy shows, in 2018 she triumphed with Nanette, in which she questions the behavior of iconic figures in the history of art, and in particular, Picasso.

Es Pablo-mático: Picasso according to Hannah Gadsby exhibits more than a hundred works, including paintings, sculptures, photographs, works on paper and videos. A selection featuring works by Pablo Picasso juxtaposed by a selection of 20th and 21st century female artists including Cecily Brown, Renee Cox, Käthe Kollwitz and Dindga McCannon. Most belong to the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, but there are also featured pieces from the Musée National Picasso-Paris, the Museum of Modern Art and private collections.

Gadsby has provided voice for the exhibition tour, with an audio guide featuring Gadsby's sharp criticism and incisive humor. Through storytelling the exhibition addresses complex issues related to misogyny, creativity, the historical canon of art and the notion of "genius".

The play of mirrors is evident, for example, in the confrontation of L'escultor (1931) by Picasso, a sexualized representation of Marie-Thérèse Walter, to which works by Faith Ringgold, Kaleta Doolin and the col· Guerrilla Girls school. A section, like the rest of the exhibition, that reflects on the #MeToo movement and the male gaze imposed from the canons of Western art.

The United States pays tribute to Picasso with seven exhibitions, as part of this initiative Celebrating Picasso 1973-2023: Cubism and the trompe-l'oeil tradition, which could be seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York between October and January; the exhibition of Picasso's Landscapes: Out of Bounds, which is on display at The Mint Museum between February and May, and at the Cincinnati Art Museum between June and October; Young Picasso in Paris (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, May-August).

Between June and September the exhibition opens at the Brooklyn Museum, Es Pablo-mático: Picasso according to Hannah Gadsby, while in the fall Picasso and La Celestina will open at the Hispanic Society of America in New York and from September to January 2024 you can see Picasso's paintings for Hamilton Easter Field at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.