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1 week ago

The violence of racist tyranny': African Guernica goes on display alongside Picasso masterpiece

African Guernica by Dumile Feni parallels Picasso's work, reflecting the impact of apartheid through its disturbing imagery and themes of violence and innocence.
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1 month ago

Madrid museum shuffles its pack charting decades of rapid change in Spain

The Reina Sofia's new rehang opens, quite pointedly, with a painting of a detained man sitting, head bowed and wrists shackled, as he waits for the arbitrary hand of institutional bureaucracy to decide his fate. The picture, Document No , was painted by Juan Genoves in 1975, the year Francisco Franco died and Spain began its transition to democracy after four decades of dictatorship.
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