Concha Jerez

AUTHOR	CONCHA JEREZ
TITLE	CHRONICLE OF SEVEN FORGOTTEN DEATHS
DATE	1977
TECHNIQUE	Drawing and photocopy
EDITION	Unique word
PROPERTY	Concha Jerez Archive
DIMENSIONS	(46 x 31) cm (without unfolding).
MATERIALS	Materials supplied by the artist: A handmade cardboard folder with metal fastener Three strips of newspapers from El País used for the daily delivery of said newspaper to subscribers of the time and, in this case, to the artist. Eight sheets of DIN A4 paper typewritten with the texts of the news taken from the newspaper El País concerning the news about the seven deaths that occurred in that pro-amnesty week in Euzkadi
CONCEPT	Piece that focuses on the treatment of the news in the daily press, on the tragic events that occurred in the pro-amnesty week in Euzkadi between May 8 and 15, 1977, in which seven people died in different places of the País Vasco and Pamplona.
DESCRIPTION	Piece made up of a handmade cardboard folder with metal fastening on the right that holds eight sheets of DIN A4 size paper typed with the texts of the news taken from the newspaper El País concerning the news about the seven deaths that occurred in that week pro-amnesty in Euzkadi. On the left, three strips of newspapers from El País used for the daily delivery of said newspaper to subscribers and, in this case, to the artist are attached to the folder.
INSTALLATION	This work can be exhibited as it is in the folder or the eight sheets of the folder separated, placing it in line with it in a display case, in such a way that the contents of the eight can be read must be presented unfolded inside a display case
EXHIBITIONS	This work was presented for the first time in Concha Jerez’s solo exhibition entitled INTERFERENCIAS EN LOS MEDIOS at MUSAC.
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