The exhibition "Termnika: Spain 1937 - Moscow 2017" opens

Thirty Russian, Spanish and Latin American artists will present their response to the picture of Pablo Picasso “Termnika” at the exhibition “Hernika: Spain 1937 - Moscow 2017”, which will be held at the Servantes Institute in Moscow from April 26 to June 10.

The exposition will include works of painting, graphics, sculptures, as well as installations.

“The name of the work of Picasso recalls the bombardment of German aviation of the Basque town of Termnik on April 26, 1937 during the Civil War in Spain. - note the organizers of the exhibition. - A huge canvas was completed by order of the government of the republic for the Spanish pavilion at an international exhibition in Paris. "Germnika" is not only considered one of the greatest works of art of the twentieth century, but has also become a kind of "icon of the century", a symbol of the horrors of war and avant -garde art. "

On the 80th anniversary of Germniki’s bombing on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition “Termnik: Spain 1937-Moscow 2017”, the Cervantes Institute holds a round table, the participants of which will discuss the political context of the picture, the history of its spelling and its influence on contemporary art.

Doctor of Historical Sciences, author of the book “The Great Spanish Revolution”, Alexander Shubin, will make a report “Country of Basque during the Civil War in Spain”, candidate of philological sciences, curator of the exhibition Tatyana Pigarev will make a report “Termnika Picasso: reality, myth, riddles”.

Participants in the exhibition “Termnika: Spain 1937-Moscow 2017” : Polina Andrukovich, Larisa Blokhina, Lena Budina, Vasily Vlasov, Natalya Georgadze, Clara Golitsyna, Omar Godines (Cuba), Anna Godovalnikova, Elena Gorokhovskaya, Lyudmila Grigoryeva-Seventitskaya, Alexei Evdokimov, Vera Yelnitskaya, Sergey Zimin, Sergey Zimin, Sergey Zimin. Inna Ivanova, Borha Karsi (Spain), Nikita Knick, Katya Kovaleva, Vladimir Kurdyukov, Ivan Lungin, Vadim Martin and Leah Pozdnyakova, Lisa Olshanskaya, Alexander Pankin, Dmitry Panchenko, Tatyana Pigarev, Svetlana Ratova, Evgeny Romanov, Dmitry Rybyev, Duddy Sarabyanov, Olga Friedland.