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Lehendakari Appeals to Historical Memory to Demand the Temporary Transfer of 'Guernica' to the Basque Country
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There are paintings hanging on a wall and paintings hanging from history. Pablo Picasso’s Guernica belongs to the second category: it is not painting, it is scarring. And scars, usually, do not lend themselves to itinerant exhibitions as if they were wedding dishes or fair trophies. Now, from the Basque political fog, the Lehendakari Imanol Pradales has decided that the canvas should travel to the Basque Country for that of “symbolic repair”. Sy…
The Basque president has clarified that there has been no request for a report on the conservation of the painting, as the one made public yesterday by the Museo Reina S...
On his visit to the Moncloa, Pradales has asked that Picasso's great work leave its usual location in Reina Sofía to be exhibited at the Guggenheim in Bilbao. More information: Other 'Guernicas' are possible: Africa also has its own and can be seen at the Reina Sofía.
Pradales calls on Sánchez to cesion the ‘picasso’ to display it in the Guggenheim as “symbolic repair” and the government opposes for reasons of preservation of the painting
Lehendakari describes as "serious political error" the refusal of the Basque Government's request after a technical report has been made public that rejects the temporary cession of Picasso's painting Read
The Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid has strongly advised against moving Picasso's 'Guernica' to any location. This comes after a request from the Basque Government for its temporary exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, coinciding with the 90th anniversary of the Basque Statute of Autonomy and the Nazi bombing of Guernica. The other 'Guernica' is already on display in Vitoria: this is the triptych by Arteta, painted in 1937, which denounce…
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