From the Picasso workshop to the Rozsda workshop. To the Lavoir boat
The space once occupied by Picasso, rebuilt after the fire of 1970, is now home to the Atelier Rozsda which retains intact the imprint of its last occupant but remains haunted by Picasso and his «band».
Pablo Ruiz Picasso moved in 1904 to the Bateau Lavoir, a disused factory transformed into workshops for young, empty painters. It will occupy the workshop located at the southwest corner of the first basement. Surrounded by poets and in tandem with the young Braque, Picasso will make this place the laboratory from which Cubism will hatch. There he will paint Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
In 1978, Endre Rozsda is very moved to be awarded this workshop located exactly in the same southwest corner of the first basement, because it is the discovery of Picasso’s work in 1939 that allowed Rozsda to find his pictorial language.
Born in 1913 in Hungary, he made France his adopted home, His singular work, which rejects the distinction abstraction/figuration was praised by André Breton. Backed by powerful patrons, Rozsda gave up the art market. He occupied this workshop until his death in 1999. In a happy fullness but unknown to the general public.
L'Atelier has become, while retaining a pictorial activity, a place of research and reflection on the work of Rozsda. Its animators, during the JEP, will trace the moments that made the Bateau Lavoir a mythical place. They will evoke the career of Endre Rozsda, its singularities, its affinities with Picasso, Françoise Gilot, André Breton and Raymond Queneau.
Registration required. No need to arrive without a reservation. However, a free visit of the surroundings is offered using the Explorama application «La marelle des arts» (QR code in www.rozsda.com)