Artecontradicción - documento n.º 1, Familia Lavapiés, Madrid: Galería Antonio Machado, 1975
View of the exhibition “Artecontradicción”, n.d. [1975?] [selection]
Poster Artecontradicción, Familia Lavapiés, Galería-Librería Antonio Machado, 31 marzo - 19 abril, n.d. [1975?]
La Familia Lavapiés
Homenaje a Antonio Machado: primer centenario, Ateneo – Pegaso, n.d. [1975?]
La Familia Lavapiés
27 set: el pueblo no olvida, n.d. [1975?]
View of the exhibition “Apoyo a la lucha del pueblo saharaui” by La Familia Lavapiés at Galería Antonio Machado (Madrid), n.d. [1976?] [selection]
Apoyo a la lucha del pueblo saharaui, Familia Lavapiés, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, del 5 al 30 de abril, n.d. [1976?]
La Familia Lavapiés
1940 condenado, 1976 perseguido. Homenaje de los pueblos de España a Miguel Hernández, n.d. [1976?]
La Familia Lavapiés
Mask with the face of Miguel Hernández, for the performance in Orihuela, n.d. [1976?]
View of the mural intervention “La ciudad debe ser nuestra”, by La Familia Lavapiés, in the neighborhood of Portugalete, Madrid, n.d. [1976] [selection]
Viento del pueblo, n. 3, 4 and 5, Madrid: Ediciones Viento del pueblo, December 1972 – [September 1974?]
View of the demonstration and fire at the Rector’s Office of Universidad Complutense in Madrid. Preparatory material for Viento del Pueblo, n.d. [1972?]
Frente Revolucionario Antifascista y Patriota (FRAP)
18 julio 1936 - 1973. Sigue la lucha antifascista, 1973
Arte y lucha: órgano de la UPA, Unión Popular de Artistas (miembro del FRAP), no. 2, Paris: s.n. [UPA in Paris?], October 1973
Poster of COPEL (Coordinadora de Presos Españoles en Lucha) for the general amnesty of the Spanish prisoners, n.d. [1977]
Pamphlet of UPA and FUDE (FRAP) against the delegates, n.d.
Almost 350 items.
This collection holds important documentary material related not only to La Familia Lavapiés but also the UPA, FRAP, PCE (m-l) and its wider community. Among over 300 references are original and graphic works, alongside posters, magazines and catalogues, as well slides, negatives and photographs, correspondence and press reports.
In the words of Darío Corbeira, the catalyst and leader of the collective: «Us members of the group La Familia Lavapiés were militants of the Unión Popular de Artistas (UPA) and the Partido Comunista de España (m-l). The UPA was one of the organs of the Frente Revolucionario Antifascista y Patriota (FRAP) and the Partido Comunista de España (m-l) embodying the Albanian version of the Maoism of the time and clandestinely led the popular-front organisations that accompanied it. You could say that La Familia Lavapiés was a Maoist group with anarchist and Trotskyist sympathies, with all the contradictions that entails, as the PCE (m-l) was an openly Stalinist party» (Desacuerdos, nº. 1, 2004).
Copies of the magazines Viento del pueblo and Arte y lucha (from the Paris branch of the UPA); actions, such as the inaugural «Artecontradicción» at the Madrid-based book shop-cum-gallery Antonio Machado; those in support of the struggle of the Sahrawi people; homages to Miguel Hernández in Madrid and Orihuela, and to Antonio Machado, and the interventions and murals created in the Madrid districts of Portugalete and La Ventilla, are some of the activities that are documented in Archivo Lafuente.