52 min
Rashid Masharawi and Khaled Hourani
Documentary
2012 - Palestine

“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.

Debuted at Documenta 13, Schermo dell'Arte Film Festival 2012, Lofoten International Art Festival 2013

Co-presented by Canadian Art Foundation

Screened with Waiting for P.O Box, Elvis of Nazareth