Spain Asks for Forgiveness

Spain Asks for Forgiveness is a conceptual and performative work of critical and anti-colonial content by recognized artist Abel Azcona. Created and started in Bogotá in November 2018 through a conference and a live performance by Azcona at the museum of contemporary art of Bogotá.

Spain Asks for Forgiveness
ArtistAbel Azcona
Year2018, 2019, 2020
MediumPerformance Art
LocationBogota Contemporary Art Museum, Bogota, La Habana, Lima, Mexico City, Madrid
Spain asks for forgiveness (2020), by Abel Azcona installed in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Bogotá

Development

In November 2018, through a conference and live performance by artist Abel Azcona in the Bogotá Contemporary Art Museum the work Spain Asks for Forgiveness (España os Pide Perdón in Spanish) began, a piece of critical and anticolonialist content.[1][2] In the first action Azcona read a text of ninety two hours for more than four hours. In the reading the cite Spain Asks for Forgiveness was repeated continuously. Two months later, Azcona was invited to present his work in Mexico City in the Mexico City Museum, where he installed a sailcloth with the same sentence on it.[3][4][5] Just a few days later the president of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador during a press conference demanded publicly an apology from Spain.[6][7][8] Since then until mid 2020, the work has been shown in diverse ways and has achieved to become a collective movement.[9] In May 2020 the Bogotá Contemporary Art Museum painted its facade with the installation's motto España os pide perdón for two months in the centre of the city of Bogotá.[10] Other cities such as La Habana, Cuba;[11] Lima, Perú; Caracas, Venezuela; Ciudad de Panamá, Panamá; Tegucigalpa, Honduras or Quito, Ecuador have been protagonists of the piece through paintings, sailcloths, posters or demonstrationa and collective acts continuing the work as a collective protest.[12]

See also

References
  1. Pardo, Sara (June 5, 2020). "España os Pide Perdón, la disculpa por el colonialismo". El Cofre Suena. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  2. Talegón, Beatriz (May 29, 2020). "La Habana (Cuba) amanece llena de carteles donde se lee "España os pide perdón"". Diario 16. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  3. Mopez, Victor (July 9, 2019). "Abel Azcona: "Si Franco despertara mañana, estaría contento de cómo está España"". Los Replicantes. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  4. Ramírez, Lidia (June 3, 2020). "Abel Azcona". The Objetive. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  5. "'España os pide perdón', la obra de un controvertido artista español desembarca en Cuba". Diario de Cuba. May 31, 2020. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  6. "España os pide perdón". Españoles de Cuba. May 30, 2020. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  7. "López Obrador insiste en que España debe pedir perdón por los "abusos" de la conquista". El Confidencial. October 11, 2019. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  8. Huerga, Yolanda (June 3, 2020). "El perdón de España con temas pasados y presentes". Radio Televisión Martí. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  9. Jiménez Guerra, Ana (February 8, 2020). "Abel Azcona: Vida, arte y muerte en un libro". Noticias de Navarra. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  10. "Abel Azcona: El Glamour de la locura". Impasse Magazine. March 2019. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  11. Hernández Busto, Ernesto (May 31, 2020). "La Habana se llena de carteles donde se lee "España os pide perdón"". Cibercuba. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  12. "Obras del artista español Abel Azcona "España pide perdón"". Radio Televisión Martí. June 3, 2020. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
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