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Madrid Museum Puts Picasso in Dialogue With "African Guernica"
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Dumile Feni's "African Guernica" (1967) is at the center of a new exhibition at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid that reimagines Picasso's iconic anti-war painting.
(© Estate Dumile Feni and Dumile Feni Family Trust; courtesy Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid)Dumile Feni’s monumental drawing is part of the Museo Reina Sofía's new program "History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but It Does Rhyme."
MADRID — Spanning over 25-feet wide and 11-feet high, Pablo Picasso’s painting “Guernica” (1937) is as monumental in size as it is in cultural significance.
A new annual exhibition series at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, which has served as the canonical work's permanent home since 1992, places “Guernica” in dialogue with other artworks.
The inaugural installment sees Picasso’s masterpiece paired with the late South African artist Dumile Feni’s “African Guernica” (1967), a large-scale charcoal drawing that evokes a similar spirit of protest and anguish.