Picasso in Palestine
Khaled Hourani, 2012, 52′
In Arabic with English subtitles
Picasso in Palestine was a project initiated by Khaled Hourani, the founder and Arts Director of the Ramallah-based International Academy of Art Palestine (IAAP). Hourani’s exhibition involved borrowing and exhibiting Picasso’s Buste de Femme (1943), the iconic expressionistic response to the Spanish Civil War. In June 2011, the painting became the first original Picasso artwork ever to be displayed in Palestine. With renowned Palestinian director Rashid Masharawi, Hourani documented the project’s realization, including the countless bureaucratic and logistical obstacles encountered on the masterpiece’s two-year long journey from the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands to the IAAP exhibition space in the West Bank.
This film is part of Grains of Sand Like Mountains – Public Program: An Afternoon with Disarming Design from Palestine
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