Performance for Peace in the "Park of European Peoples" with peace memorials by Eduardo Chillida "Our Father's House" and "Large Figure in a Shelter" by Henry Moore, Guernica (Basque Gernika-Lumo), June 14, 2023: After German and Italian bombers in 1937 destroyed Guernica, which was in War of Independence with Spain, Picasso painted “Guernica” for the Paris World Exhibition, taking place the same year, to denounce the horrors of war: "It is my wish to recall that I have always believed and still believe that an artist who lives and deals with spiritual values, in the face of a conflict in which the highest values of humanity and civilization are at stake, cannot behave indifferently.” Neither the Peace Museum nor the Cultural Center were interested in our project and refused a one-day permission. So we exhibited the portraits of peace and freedom fighters without.

Performance for Peace at the sacred oak tree "El Árbol Viejo", Guernica (Basque: Gernika-Lumo), June 14, 2023: Less well known than Picasso's monumental painting "Guernica" is that the city has the "Tree of Gernika", a sacred symbol of freedom for the politically autonomous Basques. Since the Middle Ages, the representatives of the people of the province have gathered under the oak tree (which is still an offshoot of the original tree today) to debate and deliberate on all economic, social and political issues and to take an oath to respect civil liberties. To this day, the tree is the center of political ceremonies, such as the inauguration of presidents. A later mayor aptly said, "Guernica didn't become famous because it was bombed, but bombed because it was famous."

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