GERNIKA!

In 1999 an old military aerodrome on the banks of the Cromarty Estuary, in the Scottish Highlands, was the scene for GERNIKA!, an exhibition without precedent. It showed the work of artists in the Basque Autonomous Community, Navarra, Scotland, England, Northern Ireland, and Cuba. This was an impressive and symbolic event, structured around a seminal painting from the avant-gardist movement, and an event central to the 20th century. The painting was Picasso’s ‘Guernica‘ and the event was the Spanish Civil War. It was seen as something very unusual to art. (…)

Artists that took part in that exhibition were Jose Luis Zumeta, Juan Ugalde, Nelson Villalobo, Una Walker, Liz Ogilvie, Andrew Stenhouse, Tony Grady, and the filmmaker Iñaki Elizalde. (…)

Having been held in Scotland, Eibar and Pamplona, the exhibition will move finally to Gernika-Lumo, the city that inspired Picasso’s ‘Guernica’. And so we bring together the work of these nine renowned artists for showing in the Gernika Museoa: Bakearen Museoa.