exhibition 1: picasso, braque and early film in cubism

NEW YORK, April 20 - June 23, 2007—PaceWildenstein announces the first exhibition ever devoted to the role of early film in the development of Cubism. Picasso, Braque, and Early Film in Cubism, on view from April 20 through June 23, 2007 at 32 East 57th Street, New York City, deals with the critical role played by early cinema in the formation of Cubism. The exhibition recreates the excitement of the artists’ interest in film as they invented a new style of painting that could meet the challenges of a perceptually re-invented world. Bernice Rose, former Senior Curator of Drawings at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, curated the exhibition from an original concept proposed by Arne Glimcher. This exhibition is the gallery’s seventh and most ambitious exhibition devoted to the work of Pablo Picasso, in the more than 25 years that the gallery has represented his estate. The exhibition concentrates on the Cubist years 1907 through 1914 as the period in which early film became apparent as a vital formative element in Cubism.