Picasso sculptures take centre stage in must-see exhibition at Bilbao's Guggenheim

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The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao has opened 'Picasso Sculptor - Matter and Body', an exhibition of the Spanish artist’s work marking the 50th anniversary of his death.

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00:25 Picasso is not only a great painter,

00:27 but he's a great sculptor.

00:29 Painting is commercially easier to sell, easier to travel.

00:34 Sculpture is complicated.

00:35 You have to-- they need space.

00:38 You need the space.

00:39 His contribution to sculpture was immense.

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01:05 It's great because sculpture for Picasso,

01:09 but for many artists from Renaissance even before,

01:13 is a way to find solution in painting,

01:18 another way of describing emotions.

01:22 And as Picasso, as a modern artist with all his friends

01:26 in 20th century, was wishing to get a little more

01:29 in the inner self, something like a little bit deeper.

01:34 It's good to see the sculpture in such a beautiful space,

01:38 to be able to see those sculpture

01:42 and turning around them and feeling them.

01:45 There seems to be very much a life.

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