Rewriting history with bullets, flares and a carpet

Rewriting history with bullets, flares and a carpet

The Spanish artist Fernando Sánchez Castillo is fascinated by power and its counterpart, the abuse of power. And so he is fascinated by dictators, not lastly Spain’s own Franco. I interviewed him earlier this year for NRC about his impressive exhibition in Den Bosch, where he showed a most unusual relic: two of Franco’s eyelashes.
Sánchez was in Amsterdam recently for the Art Weekend. At his gallery Tegenboschvanvreden he showed his most recent project, about a bloody confrontation between students and police in 1968 in the Mexican new town of Tlatelolco. 

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De wimpers van Franco

De wimpers van Franco

Macht, machtsmisbruik en dus machthebbers: dat zijn de obsessies van de Spaanse kunstenaar Fernando Sánchez Castillo. Zijn werk is nu op twee plaatsen in Nederland te zien. „Het is zwaar om deze geschiedenis met me mee te dragen, als Spanjaard en als kunstenaar”, zegt hij in mijn interview met hem voor NRC Handelsblad. „Hoe kan ik aan Franco ontsnappen?”

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