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| GUERNICA DOCUMENT/GERNIKA LEKUKOTASUNA | ||||||
| In 1998 Kelly was invited to be visiting
artist in Guernica, Spain. His visit coincided with the commemoration
of the bombing of the city of Guernica (Gernika in the Basque language).
This work was later begun in his studio in America in early 1998 and completed in an installation at the Euskal Herria Museoa (Museum of the Basque Country), Guernica in April of that year. It was subsequently exhibited at the Guernica Museum (Gernika Museoa), Spain.
"Kelly continues to admire that great work of Picasso ('Guernica') while feeling that, in this age of mass communication of images of suffering transmitted around the world, his own work should not express confrontation and violence but address them as a means of both extending his own challenges as an artist and contributing to the international dialogue on peace and reconciliation."
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