Quote from the Gernika Peace Museum Foundation:
“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”.
Having been held in Scotland, Eibar and Pamplona, the exhibition moved finally to Gernika-Lumo, the city that inspired Picasso’s “Guernica” and is now archived in the Gernika Museoa: Bakearen Museoa.
Artists involved: Another Space, Iñaki Elizalde, Tony Grady, Liz Ogilvie, Andrew Stenhouse, Juan Ugalde, Nelson Villalobo, Una Walker, Jose Luis Zumeta.
Supported by Scottish Arts Council, Ross and Cromarty Enterprise, Hi Arts Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Pamplona District Council, Basque Regional Authority, ERDF Objective One, and The Highland Council.
