Guernica as décor

01/12/09  Dieter Roelstraete

London
Whitechappel Gallery
05/04/09 - 18/04/10

At the initiative of Goshka Macuga, the woven replica of Picasso’s Guernica from the UN headquarters in New York is temporarily hanging for a year in the Whitechapel Art Gallery, as décor in a space where people can organize free public gatherings upon request. This London tableau in turn served as the point of departure for a new tapestry that Macuga ordered woven for the Textiles exhibition in M HKA. Dieter Roelstraete wrote the following text.

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