The City Council, through the delegation of Culture, gives the conference ‘Polyhedral Picasso, his lights and shadows’.

The teacher of the Drawing and Painting Workshop, Rocío Garín, will give the lecture on Thursday, November 30, at 7:00 p.m., at the Padre Manuel Cultural Center, with free admission until full capacity is reached.

The Estepona City Council informs that next Thursday, November 30, at 19:00 pm, will be held at the Padre Manuel Cultural Center a conference on ‘Polyhedral Picasso, his lights and shadows’, by the teacher of the Drawing and Painting Workshop of the municipal delegation of Culture, Rocio Garin.

Getting closer to the figure of this artist, considered the precursor of cubism, is possible thanks to this activity, in which we can know the most polyhedral Picasso seen through some of his most representative works, now that celebrates the 50th anniversary of the death of the painter from Malaga (April 1973).

The speaker will offer her personal vision of this genius of painting, from the point of view of the creative artist, and will analyze how Picasso became the artist he was, with his lights and shadows, giving a new perspective to his person, as a genius, as a writer, as a ceramist, as an emigrant, as an exile…, like any other person, with his lights and shadows.

“What we can be sure of is that Pablo Ruiz Picasso was an artist whose extensive career is marked by constant change. His prodigious gaze and phenomenal talent opened up new ways of looking at painting, sculpture, ceramics, engraving and art in general.”

The activity, with free admission until full capacity is reached, is open to audiences of all ages, and aims to encourage interest in the visual arts.

Rocío Garín. Since she was very young, the Estepona artist Rocío Garín (1977) has enjoyed “drawing and painting”, an interest that led her to study at the School of Arts and Crafts in Algeciras and, later, at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Seville, where she graduated in 2001. She quickly began working as a restorer of some of the most significant monuments of Seville, as well as church facades in the capital of Seville.

Since her return to Estepona in 2002, she has been teaching drawing and painting, an activity that she combines with three aspects of her artistic facet: as a researcher, as an artist, and as a teacher, she has developed different didactic methods.

In 2013 she published a “Manual de Dibujo y Pintura” (Drawing and Painting Manual), in which she collects the main techniques and tools to be taken into account in the first year of training of students.