Guernica Trilogy

In 1937, Pablo Picasso presented one of his most famous works at the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris International Exhibition: Guernica. The canvas internationalised national suffering and went down in history as an anti-war symbol. In 2008, Ron English (United States, 1956) reinterpreted the work of the painter from Malaga, substituting Picassian characters for references from popular culture. In this way, the American artist who coined the term “Popaganda” to describe the relationship between Western art, pop culture and corporate advertisements, carries out a sharp critique of contemporaneity, taking advantage of the condition of a “propaganda poster” that the Guernica itself was seen as during the Civil War.