Europalia España
Exposición S.M.A.K. Gante, hasta el 8 de marzo
8 de marzo, 15h: Conferencia de Germán Labrador Méndez (Princeton) sobre las reacciones artísticas al franquismo y la transición.
https://smak.be/en/exhibitions/europalia-espana-resistance-the-power-of-the-image
This group exhibition explores how, since the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), Spanish artists have used art as a form of resistance, to demand new rights and to denounce injustice. A pivotal moment in this history was the Spanish Pavilion at the 1937 World Fair in Paris, where the horrors of the Spanish Civil War were brought to an international stage through a wide range of art forms. For the occasion, Picasso created ‘Guernica’, a painting that remains an enduring symbol of resistance and of art’s role therein.
Resistance. The Power of the Image focuses on two pivotal moments in Spain’s democratization process when art emerged as a political instrument. First, the 1970s – the final years of resistance to Franco’s dictatorship (1936-1975) and the country’s transition to democracy. Second, the past decade, shaped by a new wave of protest – including the Indignados movement – in response to the banking and property crises and a broader erosion of democratic principles.