Resistance. The Power of the Image

The exhibition shows how Spanish artists have used art as a means of resistance since the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), demanding new rights and denouncing abuses. The Spanish Pavilion at the 1937 World's Fair in Paris played an important role in this. Two key moments in Spain's democratisation process in which art manifested itself as a political instrument form the focus of this exhibition. On the one hand, the 1970s: the period of the last resistance to Franco's dictatorship and the transition to democracy. On the other hand, the past decade: marked by a new wave of protests in response to the banking and property crisis and broader erosion of basic democratic principles.