The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao has opened 'Picasso Sculptor - Matter and Body', an exhibition of the Spanish artist’s work marking the 50th anniversary of his death.
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00:25 Picasso is not only a great painter,
00:27 but he's a great sculptor.
00:29 Painting is commercially easier to sell, easier to travel.
00:34 Sculpture is complicated.
00:35 You have to-- they need space.
00:38 You need the space.
00:39 His contribution to sculpture was immense.
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01:05 It's great because sculpture for Picasso,
01:09 but for many artists from Renaissance even before,
01:13 is a way to find solution in painting,
01:18 another way of describing emotions.
01:22 And as Picasso, as a modern artist with all his friends
01:26 in 20th century, was wishing to get a little more
01:29 in the inner self, something like a little bit deeper.
01:34 It's good to see the sculpture in such a beautiful space,
01:38 to be able to see those sculpture
01:42 and turning around them and feeling them.
01:45 There seems to be very much a life.
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