Marta Kuzma,
Hannah Ryggen,
Chus Martínez,
et al.Bettina Funcke, Katrin Sauerländer, Cordelia Marten, Sam Frank, Stefanie Drobnik, John Irons, Gerrit Jackson, Ralf Schauff, [1 More...]
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On its first display, Picasso’s Guernica hung in close proximity to a tapestry entitled Etiopia (Ethiopia), woven in 1935 by a then barely known Norwegian artist (born in Sweden) called Hannah Ryggen, in response to Benito Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia. 1935. The military occupation secured Mussolini with international popularity and forged the alliance with Adolf Hitler that effectively supported Franco and enabled the bombing of Guernica.Violence for the ages. The motivation for Ryggen’s tapestry did not come out of a request from a commissioner or institutional mediator, but from an urgent personal need to respond ...