威尼斯电影节非竞赛展映。 In parallel with this series is the unveiling of the artists’ installation Frente a Guernica (In Front of Guernica) in the exhibition Machinations, a work comprising a selection of watercolours, manifesto-posters, made by Angela Ricci Lucchi and the looped screening of the last film, commissioned by Museo Reina Sofía, made by the duo. The origins of this film lie in the last script both artists wrote together — following their visit to the Museo in 2014 to present the film Pays barbare (Barbaric Land, 2014) — and are influenced by what at the time was new museography around Picasso’s Guernica, inside the context of the Spanish Civil War. Following Ricci Lucchi’s death in 2018 and after the pandemic and extensive research carried out from their broad film archive, Gianikian realised the project in 2023: a new single-channel film conceived as a grand historical fresco in which the mural is a symptom and symbol of catastrophic times.
