2023 British Spanish Society-Instituto Cervantes London Annual Lecture: Picasso, the Spaniard

The 2023 British Spanish Society-Instituto Cervantes London Annual Lecture: Picasso, the Spaniard, will be given by art historian, food critic and Hispanist Gijs van Hensbergen.

Even today many art lovers and art historians discuss Picasso in terms of the School of Paris. Despite many years in exile Picasso continued to engage deeply with his Spanish pictorial heritage and inspire the younger generation of Spanish artists that include Antonio Saura and Antoni Tapies. Perhaps his greatest encounter with him came in 1957 where his months long mano a mano confrontation with Velazquez's Las Meninas revealed Picasso's irreverent gift for deconstruction. Join us!

About the speaker:
Gijs van Hensbergen is a Dutch art historian, food critic and Hispanist. After training at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London for a BA Hons and Postgraduate research in History of Art he worked for the Knoedler Gallery, in London and New York. Following this, he made the rather eccentric decision to devote 5 years of his life to the art of the Master Chef of the Chaine des Rotisseurs as a suckling pig specialist in Segovia, Spain. Gijs vanHensbergen is now the Grand Knight of the Noble Order of the Silver Whisk. Van Hensbergen’s projects and TV work include his collaboration with John Richardson on A Life of Picasso 2010-12.
La Conferencia Anual British Spanish Society-Instituto Cervantes Londes 2023: «Picasso, el español», correrá a cargo del historiador de arte, crítico gastronómico e hispanista neerlandés Gijs van Hensbergen.

Incluso hoy en día, muchos amantes e historiadores del arte abordan la figura de Picasso centrándose en la Escuela de París. A pesar de haber vivido muchos años en el exilio, Picasso siempre se sintió vinculado a su herencia pictórica española y fue fuente de inspiración para la generación más joven de artistas españoles, entre los que se incluyen Antonio Saura y Antoni Tàpies. Quizás su encuentro más extraordinario se produjo en 1957 cuando su confrontación, mano a mano durante meses con Las meninas de Velázquez, reveló el don irreverente de Picasso para la deconstrucción.

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