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Footballers Play with Franco Head at Spain Art Festival
- Two football teams played a match using an artistic reproduction of Francisco Franco's head at an art festival in Spain, illustrating the nation's historical tensions.
- The event, called 'Ex Abrupto,' took place in Moia, near historical trenches from the Spanish Civil War.
- Organizer Merino stated, 'It's the 50th anniversary of Franco's death and I thought it was necessary to commemorate it.'
- The match was recorded for future broadcast at a local bar.
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A hyperrealist replica of the head of the dictator Francisco Franco has shot this Thursday afternoon, which football ball, through the royal trenches of the Civil War in Moià (Barcelona), thanks to the performance 'The Cup of the Generalissimo', promoted by the artist Eugenio Merino.In the framework of the festival of contemporary art Ex Abrupto, which celebrates a decade of cultural activism and "undisciplined creation", Merino, known for works…
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Footballers play with Franco head at Spain art festival
Spain's fierce passion for football took an unexpected turn on Thursday as two teams faced off playing with an unusual ball: an artistic reproduction of former dictator Francisco Franco's head.
A hyperrealistic replica of the head of the dictator Francisco Franco has shot this Thursday afternoon, like a soccer ball, among the real trenches of the Civil War in...
The performance is called "Cup Generalissimos" after the name of one of the main football competitions during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco (1939-1975), who died 50 years ago.
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informacion.esA hyperrealistic replica of the head of the dictator Francisco Franco has shot this Thursday afternoon, as a football, through the royal trenches of the Civil War in Moià (Barcelona), thanks to the performance 'La Copa del Generalísimo', promoted by the artist Eugenio Merino.
The festival kicked off this year's edition with an anti-fascist football match designed to "celebrate" the fiftieth anniversary of the dictator's death.
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