(Im)possible Counter-Archives Rethinking Guernica (Im)possible Counter-Archives sets forth a broad map of relations and connections that start from the political resignification of Guernica put into effect by different US artist-activist collectives at two specific junctures The Collection
Interview with Tony Shafrazi New York, 2019 Tony Shafrazi (Abadan, Iran, 1943), artist and art dealer. To the backdrop of the Vietnam War and its political and social impact in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States, Shafrazi explains the reasons behind his 1974 action protest against an anti-war icon such as Guernica.Access Oral History The Collection
Interview with Claude Picasso Paris, 2019 Claude Ruiz Picasso (Boulogne-Billancourt, France, 1947), artist, film-maker and son of Pablo Picasso and Françoise Gilot. In this interview, Claude Picasso offers his view of the process to transfer Guernica to Spain following the death of his father in 1973: the conflictive relationship with Roland Dumas, executor of the artist’s will, his family’s grievance over the moral right of the work, and its installation in the Museo Reina Sofía.Access Oral History The Collection
Interview with Roland Dumas Paris, 2019 Roland Dumas (Limoges, France, 1922), lawyer, politician and executor of Pablo Picasso’s will. Dumas was in charge of drafting the artist’s will with respect to Guernica, guaranteeing that both the painting and its preparatory works would only reach Spain once public liberties representative of democratic States were reinstated, and regardless of government.Access Oral History The Collection
