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Picasso – Bacon with Michael Peppiatt

Picasso – Bacon with Michael Peppiatt

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In this episode of Lange Ohren, Felix von Boehm meets art
historian, author and curator Michael Peppiatt in London. Peppiatt
was a close friend of Francis Bacon for almost three decades.
Taking the exhibition PICASSO – BACON as their starting point, they
explore the fascination Pablo Picasso held for the young Bacon and
how his admiration for a great artistic role model gave rise to a
distinctive visual language of his own. What does it feel like to
be human? This question connects two artists who radically
reimagined the human body. The conversation moves from Bacon’s
encounter with Picasso’s drawings in Paris to images of desire,
pain and vulnerability. Peppiatt reflects on Bacon’s search for his
own voice, his inner contradictions and painting as a way of giving
form to these tensions. What emerges is also an intimate portrait
of a man whose warmth, generosity and humour might come as a
surprise to those familiar only with the stark intensity of his
paintings. Mehr erfahren? Die Ausstellung PICASSO – BACON. What It
Feels Like to Be Human ist von 18. September 2026 bis 31. Jänner
2027 in der ALBERTINA zu sehen. Rund 70 Werke aus internationalen
Museen und Privatsammlungen eröffnen einen Dialog über die
Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede der beiden Künstler und ihre
Auseinandersetzung mit der menschlichen Existenz. Zur Ausstellung
Das Gespräch wird auf Englisch geführt.