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The work, comprised of fifteen segments, is already is already a part of the main hall at the Basque club where it will be a reminder of the bombing suffered by the Bizkaian village. At an inaugural event for the mural, poems were read and that club dancers also performed. 

Chivilcoy, Argentina.   A group of artists from varied backgrounds gathered under the direction of Professor Perla Sar, to create a reproduction of one of the most famous and significant paintings of Pablo Picasso, the ‘Guernica,” to donate their work to the Beti Aurrera Basque club.  “The work is comprised of fifteen segments that after being assembled and installed create the entire Guernica,” club sources explained.

The mural was inaugurated on November 14 at the clubhouse and the inauguration was attended by the artists as well as Perla Sar and other guests.  During the ceremony, besides presenting the work to the public, there was also a poetry recital with texts about the Bombing of Gernika being read, by members of the Argentine Society of Writers from its Chivilcoy chapter.  After the reading, the dantzaris paid tribute to those present with their dances.

“It is a valuable and generous collective construction that is already part of our Basque club,” Beti Aurrera said.  “It is a clear and mobilizing historical account of the facts of that terrible bombing that came to us in the context of the recent tragedy in Paris.  Therefore, with poems, words in Basque, and sharing a table, we felt that we were together for peace.”  After the ceremony members of the club had dinner with the artists.