Madrid Museum Puts Picasso in Dialogue With "African Guernica"

The Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid has launched an annual series titled “History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but It Does Rhyme” that places Pablo Picasso’s Guernica (1937) in dialogue with other works. In the inaugural installment, the museum pairs Guernica—measuring more than 25 feet wide and 11 feet high and responding to the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica on 26 April 1937—with Dumile Feni’s charcoal drawing African Guernica (1967). The pairing frames both works as protests against violence, connecting Picasso’s anti-war imagery to Feni’s response to racism and state oppression under South African Apartheid. The program also highlights contemporary debates in Spain about race and institutional narratives.

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