From Pablo Picasso - Guernica

This sculpture is part of a series that pays homage to great artists by creating silver bas-reliefs from prototypes produced by the painters themselves. In this case, the bas-relief celebrates the art of the great master Pablo Picasso, reproducing his masterpiece, Guernica. As is well known, the work was created by the Spanish artist in 1937, inspired by the tragedy of the bombing of a market in the small Basque town. The work, housed at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, has become a universal symbol of the horrors and atrocities of war. This bas-relief was created in the 1970s, based on one of the three artist's proofs Picasso produced while working on the piece.

The bas-relief has the merit of translating the spirit of Pablo Picasso's art into the third dimension. Guernica, in particular, represents the pinnacle of the Spanish artist's research in his post-Cubist phase. The decomposition of subjects and their reconstruction in a complex and non-univocal space remains a cornerstone of Picasso's representation of reality. However, unlike his Analytical and Synthetic Cubist phases, the artist no longer uses it to objectively investigate the structure of things, but to create a powerfully expressive, dramatic art, charged with human passion. Thus, the Cubist decomposition, perfectly rendered by the three-dimensionality of the bas-relief, intervenes to describe the horror of the devastation of the bombs, the destruction of property, animals, and people.

The work was created from a prototype by Pablo Picasso, born in Malaga in 1881 and died in Mougins in 1973. Picasso was one of the most important artists in the history of world art. After his initial figurative experimentation in the "Blue" and "Rose" periods, he founded Cubism with Georges Braque. Drawing on the work of Cézanne, Picasso definitively transcended the concept of phenomenon in art to arrive at that of noumenon, breaking down the subject and depicting it from multiple perspectives. He was an extremely multifaceted artist and produced an impressive body of work throughout his long career.

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