How to visit and what to see in Imagine Picasso (Madrid): schedules, prices

The tributes to Picasso on the eve of the 50th anniversary of his death with a immersive exhibition which brings together more than 200 works of the artist outside their frames, projected on walls, floors and three-dimensional modules.

Imagine Picasso, the exhibition that you cannot miss in the Space 5.1 Ifema Madrid, until April's 10.

and next to Picasso, don't forget that in the same venue you can also see the work of another painting genius, Salvador Dalí en dali challenge.

Imagine Picasso, immersive exhibition largest in digital format made by one of the most prominent Spanish artists of the 20th century, can now be seen for the first time in Spain after its success in France, Canada and the United States.

Sponsored by the Picasso Foundation, offers us a monumental tour of 217 of the painter's best paintings as an appetizer for all the commemorative events expected in Madrid and all over the world next April.

What the immersive exhibition Imagine Picasso is like

It is a large format digital exhibition ideal for the whole family that presents us with the Picasso universe using new technologies in a different way.

This unique exhibition aims to bring to the general public a set of highly selected works, which you could not otherwise see in the same space, because they belong to private collections and museums around the world.

Among them, the MOMA from New York, National Picasso Museum in Paris, the one in Barcelona or the one in Moscow.

From el Guernica biggest in the world until Ladies of Avignon, works that you can contemplate through a spectacular viewing made with 70 video projectors spread over 1.400 square meters, allowing you to enjoy the paintings on multiple walls and gigantic structures up to 10 meters high.

But it is not just a collection of screens, there is a whole set behind it, designed by the architect Rudy Ricciotti, to create volumes inspired by origami which Picasso towards his children.

A monumental journey for more than half an hour of projection in a gigantic format, in which there is no center or periphery so that everyone can make their own journey, immersing you in the images and in which music plays a leading and enveloping role.

Among them pieces of Satie, Debussy, Stravinsky y Ravel.

Some of the songs that can be heard have been selected with the Picasso family, and they are the same ones that delighted the painter while he worked in his workshop.

What to see at the immersive exhibition Imagine Picasso

The exhibition begins with an introduction that contextualizes the artist's career to better understand his stages.

From the first years, through the surrealism, cubism, blue stage al pink, iberism or portraits of women.

Along with these explanations, his biography and a list of his most representative works.

The works are projected in a completely dark room, in a constant flow that allows us to closely appreciate lines and brushstrokes.

It is the opportunity to get closer to details of the paintings that could not be done otherwise.

In fact, many of his paintings seem to ask for this breaking down of images to observe them in shorter shots, with more detail and in formats projected on different surfaces.

The projections have been made with the system Imagine Totale which aims to turn the entire space into a single canvas so that each visitor can immerse themselves and live their experience in a unique way.

Each visitor can choose the place to observe the projection, taking their time to move from one place to another, because the tour is constantly moving.

Images and scenes multiply, merge and overlap with an immersive and exciting musical soundtrack in the background.

There is no time limit, you can be in the room as much as you want, there are no passes or fixed times for the screening.

In addition to the famous Guernica y Demoiselles d'Avignon bigger than ever, we can enjoy First Communion, Science and charity, Portrait of Carlota Valdivia-La celestina, Family of acrobats with monkey, Boy leading a horse or Minotaur pulling a chariot.

It is as if all the works of Picasso met in Spain once and for all to the joy of many of their followers and admirers.

For the little ones there is a special brochure with games and activities that allow them to approach the figure of genius.

The objective of the organizers is to bring art closer to all audiences and all ages with a different way of looking, entertaining and fun.

Picasso and his pictorial stages

Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga in 1881.

In 1900, he exhibited in Paris, at the Universal exposition, and starts the blue Period in which it focuses on human destiny and the marginalized of society.

Blue is the color of his youth that is reflected in the paintings of this time.

In 1904 he settled permanently in the Bateu-Lavoir of Paris beginning its pink stage, in which the circus world and Gosol landscapes.

With the Ladies of Avignon begins the cubism.

It was a revolutionary moment in which a Picasso 30 years old paints his first collage, Still life with grid chair.

It is time to break the mold, in which he begins to paint faces and unstructured shapes with a totally new perspective and volumes.

In 1935, after a few years in which several styles were mixed, cubism, realismEven classicism, Picasso He also approached surrealism in a flirtation with this current, although he never clung to it.

In these years the painter also became a poet; He wrote more than 350 poems and three plays.

From this time the figure of the mythical Minotaur, although it was not until 1937 when he painted the Guernica, after the bombing of the small Basque city, a work that was in the MOMA in New York since 1939 and was not returned to Spain until 1981.

It was his wish that he not return to our country until democracy was restored.

It is one of his most famous and emblematic paintings, and with it his work takes on a political projection.

The figures of the bull and the horse are the ones chosen by Picasso to denounce the barbarism and violence of war.

After the war, his dove of peace became a symbol of everything.

From 1948 Picasso He moved to the south of France, where he also explored other artistic disciplines such as ceramics and sculpture.

Thus, Picasso He produced more than 3.000 original ceramic works in his pottery workshop. 

It was in 1973 when he died in Mougins, at the age of 92, but not before becoming as famous as a movie star.

He appeared on magazine covers like Life in the United States, or Paris-Match in France.

He left an incalculable volume of works that took several years to catalog.

From them emerged the collection of National Picasso Museum in Paris, with works that were never sold and that were with him throughout his long and prolific life.

Imagine Picasso exhibition visit schedules

The Visiting hours for the immersive exhibition Imagine Picasso They are, from Tuesday to Thursday and Sundays, from 10 a.m. to 20 p.m., and Fridays and Saturdays, from 10 a.m. to 21 p.m., with closure on Mondays. 

Imagine Picasso ticket prices

The Imagine Picasso ticket prices They are, from Tuesday to Friday, 15 euros for the general fee; 9 euros for children's tickets from 4 to 12 years old; and free tickets for under 4 years.

On weekends and holidays, general admission costs 18 euros and children's tickets cost 10 euros.

VIP entry costs 25 euros, and gives you access to the exhibition at any time and day of the week without queues.

To these prices we must add 1,50 euros for management fees, both online and at the box office, and on the other hand, students, Youth Card holders, seniors+65 and people with disabilities have a 15 percent discount in the price of admission.