Arias Heads Picasso
digital art with sound and music
animated artwork is based on a photograph by Hubertus Hierl, the last Picasso photographer alive.
The complete work consists of a limited series of 13 x 13 digital originals/ NFTs. Why 13? Seems you don’t share Picasso’s superstition.
Picasso – genius of change.
Master of disguise.
Like no other, he kept reinventing his art.
And no less himself.
What remained constant was his spirit of invention.
His humor.
His superstition.
And his fear malicious hands could abuse his hair for black magic and voodoo.
No one else but Eugenio Arias, his Spanish barber and friend, was to touch his head.
On the fiftieth anniversary of the master’s death, Arias takes over once again.
Can you hear them laugh?
Inspiration
Quote from Monika Czernin and Melissa Müllers book Picasso’s Barber
“But Arias, that wasn’t art, cutting Picasso’s hair,”
I heard often, again and again.
“He barely had any.”
To that I always replied:
“You are mistaken. It is much more difficult to cut the hair of someone who is nearly bald, because you first have to find the few there are.”
Eugénio Arias 11
