Picasso's gaze returns to Malaga in the form of a song and music video

"There is only one way to see things, until someone dares to see them differently," once said Pablo Picasso. With this quote, the president of the Unicaja Foundation, José Manuel Domínguez, expressed his gratitude for the artwork in memory of the artist presented this Friday at the Picasso Museum in Malaga: 'Eyes of the child Pablo.' The nearly four-minute song is an arrangement of the poem by Pedro Luis Gómez, a journalist and expert on the life of the painter. A poem written and lost in 1994 that was recovered only "two to four months ago," according to Gómez.

The star of the music video is Ana Romma, a 19-year-old singer from Malaga who has already succeeded in performances in Antequera and El Rocío. In the music video, which will be translated into French and English, Ana traverses the different settings in Malaga that marked the painter's life. The streets and squares where he grew up and learned to see the world. After the song's presentation, she thanked HEQATE Productions and the role of Javier Tapia, her teacher and arranger.

The journalist and poet recounted his trip to London that inspired him to write the poem 22 years ago: "I went to the 'Picasso Sculptor Painter' exhibition and met a wonderful being: John Golding, a professor at the University of London." During his brief days in the British capital, Gómez saw how the painter's face enveloped the entire city. All its posters and billboards. "It was the face of a Malagan born in Plaza de la Merced. I spoke with Golding and, impressed by what I had seen, I wrote this poem. Then I lost it in the computers," recalls the journalist from Malaga with a chuckling voice.

"We wanted to get closer to that Pablo, the child, the Malagan, the origin of everything. This project is born from admiration, but also from respect and, above all, from love for our roots," said Ana after thanking the entire team of the Picasso Museum: "This is not just a museum, it is a place that holds memories, history, and a very deep part of the soul of this city." She also thanked the Unicaja Foundation for sponsoring the project and for allowing the use of the María Cristina Hall for the filming of the music video. "There in 1884, little Pablo made his first brushstrokes," remembered the foundation's president.

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Also, Pablo Picasso's grandson, Bernard Ruiz Picasso, and the Minister of Culture, Patricia del Pozo, occupied the front row along with other authorities. "I love Bernard. Everything we do for him and for Christine Picasso is little," said Pedro Luis Gómez referring to the support given by the painter's descendants to this and other projects in his memory. The event was also attended by the Minister of Economy and Finance, Carolina España; the director of the Unicaja Foundation, Sergio Corral; and the mayor of Alameda, José García.

Romma, whose real name is Ana María Delgado, described the music video as a "link" between the painter and today's world. Meanwhile, the face of Pablo shines behind her on the big screen of the Christine Ruiz Picasso Auditorium. It is still a child's face, but the gaze of the great artist is already discernible. The gaze of Picasso's eyes. "Eyes to traverse a century, eyes from beginning to end," says Eugenio Carmona, a professor at UMA and an expert on the artist's life. Gómez wrote about those eyes, and today Ana sings about them: "Big eyes to look at you; big eyes that look at me; big eyes that see you."