‘Picasso, the journey of Guernika’, an unmissable exhibition in Las Palmas

The impressive ‘Guernica’ of the artist, from Malaga but international, Pablo Picasso is one of the best known works, reproduced, admired, reinterpreted and controversial in the history of art. It is an icon of the 20th century.

Originally created for the International Exhibition of Paris in 1937 as an element of propaganda in favor of the Second Spanish Republic, this painting was later placed at the service of the refugees of the Civil War. After the Second World War, it was deposited in the MoMA and became a symbol of modern art.

Guernica has been a very traveling work: from Paris to New York, from São Paulo to Stockholm, from London to Milan, from Munich to Madrid, among many other cities in Europe and America. It has also been an emblem in all kinds of citizen uprisings and protests: from the Vietnam War, in the 1960s, to the Syrian War and the refugee crisis.

The impact of the work of Picasso and, specifically, of Guernica challenges the memory and the visual imaginary of our time and continues to this day. Now an exhibition, explains the trip of the work in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.