ANDthe artist Enrique Tenreiro painted in October 2018 a dove on the tomb of the dictator Francisco Franco in the Valley of the Fallen. Now, Tenreiro has started a confinement in a window of a gallery in La Coruña to protest the “delay“in the resolution of Supreme Court on his case.
This is how he explained it, in statements to journalists, on the occasion of a confinement that the owner of the gallery, Camilo Chashas explained as a “artistic performance“, which will periodically be done in the establishment, and that the sculptor has been described as a protest action.
Tenreiro locks himself in, he says, to highlight the delay of the Supreme Court about your case, after having been acquitted in 2022 of crimes against freedom of conscience and acts of desecration and damage.
“The basis of the trial was the time of the graffiti“, recalled the artist after specifying that the testimony of a civil guard confirmed that “I did not interrupt the mass”. Despite his acquittal, an appeal was filed in the Supreme Court, which is now pending its ruling.
“It’s almost two years; you think if they are taking their time to turn the sentence around, If they have to condemn me I prefer it to be now because, perhaps with a subsequent government there would be no possibility“said the artist, who fears that, if the acquittal is not confirmed, he will have to request the pardon.
Three days of confinement
Enrique Tenreiro has insisted that his objective when he painted Franco’s tomb was to vindicate the “freedom“and has assured that his intention is to stay for three days, in line with what was stated by the gallery owner who has indicated that “in principle” it will be until Friday the bull run.
He will do it in a three square meter showcasein which he has simulated a room with a small plant and a television, a bedside table, a chemical toilet and other items such as a blanket, as well as books.
His performance, he says, also seeks to show “that justice is another service“. “Why do we Spaniards have to wait for the supreme late years? I can’t rest easy until I ratify my absolution“Tenreiro has added,He wears an orange jumpsuit like “a prisoner in the United States” during his confinement.
