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GERNIKA
26 april 1937 · 26 april 1999
GERNIKA MUSEOA
I
have always wanted to paint a tryptych on Gernika, but
for a long time I felt unable to do so... Two years ago
I realised the moment had finally come.
What 1 saw as a child growing up in Gemika in the
sixties was a town built by the Agency for
War-Devastated Regions. The victors of the Spanish Civil
War had given us, the people of Gernika, a new town,
something which called to mind Mussolini's public works.
It is those who win wars who write history. We , the
vanquished, were left with our tree.
The Gernika tryptych is my own cry against something
which should never happen again. On 26th April1937 the
Condor Legion dropped heavy incendiary bombs on Gernika
(the sacred city of the Basque people and the
traditional symbol of their liberties) and blood rained
down from the sky (in the centre of the painting), and
gunned down the towns people with the utmost brutality
as they fled fram the burning
town.
(...........)
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EXPOSICIÓN EN ROMA DE "New York 11/9"
La Directora de la Real Academia de España en Roma,
Charo Otegui Pascual presentó con ocasión del seminario
"L’Immagine del nemico" la Exposición de Sofía Gandarias
de NewYork 9\11, en Roma: Piazza San Pietro in Montorio,
3.
Paris:
On May 18th, Sofía Gandarias is decorated like Chevalier
des Arts et des Lettres in the mythical Palais Garnier
in Paris by the President of the Bibliothéque Nationale,
M. Jean Noël Jeanneney in the ceremony and delivery of
its pictures "Picture of Nureyev" and "the Fire bird" to
the Musée of l'Opéra by the "Fundación Universitaria de
España".
Spoleto:
Exposition 9/11 prolongé en Rocca Albornoziana de
Spoleto avant le succès du public et du critique.
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