Raval Bookstore, Barcelona - September 1999 to September 2000

ORIOL RIUS

Of Bull and Sickle is both a tribute to September 11 and a symbol of the October Revolution, without which – just like that without the French Revolution, the Catalan Revolt or the Rebellion of the Remences – we would not be where we are.

In this great bull skin there is a triangular piece that doesn’t fit, but might fit. It looks like an echo of "dialoguen, por favor" (talk, please). But it came much earlier, as a lament of the disenchantment of intransigence and oblivion.

This triangular piece is scalene, irregular, uncomfortable. It is part of the speech of the exhibition in Can Sisteré, where I proposed to unravel the hidden rebellion of this geometric form that, breaking all symmetries, makes the foundations of paralysis and power collapse.

Later,this work has been exhibited at Maria Villalba Gallery (Barcelona) and in El Refugi (Badalona) (image below)

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Photographies by Josep Maria Cortina

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