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A huge exhibition in Madrid of sketches, photographs and paintings records the plight of the 500,000 republican refugees after the civil war
In a cavernous space off one of Madrid’s main boulevards, a dying Federico García Lorca slumps like an unstrung puppet, a refugee cellist stares down Robert Capa’s lens, and the eyes of a young woman Pablo Picasso sketched 71 years ago meet the public’s gaze for the very first time.
The images, carefully arranged among hundreds of photographs, books, flags, paintings and audio archives, herald a belated homecoming. Continue reading...