PICASSO / 1927

Picasso 1926-1939: From Minotaur to Guernica focuses on a key phase of transition in Picasso's art, from his numerous depictions of the Minotaur myth in the late 1920s and early 1930s to his majestic and tragic 1937 masterpiece, Guernica. The Minotaur, contained i n a labyrinth where it was fed Athenian youths, serves in part as a metaphor for destructive bestial drives under containment, but i n Picasso's works on the theme, the Minotaur is set free into the world, where it frequently finds itself stumbling and dumbstruck.