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"Rich Cat Dies of Heart Attack in Chicago" was the puzzling headline of one of Brazil's most important newspapers in April 1964, after a coup had just taken place. (Censorship had ensured that the paper could not carry a factual title, so they resorted to using a superficial story.) Rich Cat... is also the title of artist Fernando Sánchez Castillo's video narrative, which shows the cast bronze head of a "standard" ruler (civil, military, royal?) being subjected to a sequence of ambiguous events--choreographies, frivolous games and competitive sports--it is flung from a triumphal arch, dragged by a rope from a security tank, attacked by a pack of hounds and attached by ropes to a number of horses which pull it in opposite directions. As Sánchez Castillo explains, "The intention is to accord an imagery to those social processes which we know have taken place, but of which there has been scarcely any visual representation." The project is extensively documented with performance images and the artist's sketches; also included here are other projects from 1994-2003.

These seven young "bad boy" Spanish artists presented video work at the 50th Venice Biennale. What brings together Manu Arregui, Carles Congost, Joan Mikel Euba, Joan Morey, Sergio Prego, Pepo Salazar and Fernando Snchez Castillo are their shared themes of personal identity, obsession, desire and struggle.

This look at Spanish participation in the Venice Biennale begins in 1895, with the Biennale's inauguration, and ends in 2003, with the most recent mounting of the world's premier art event. A Century of Spanish Art Abroad represents the uninhibited development of vanguard art in Spain over the past century.