An engraving based on a photograph of Mateu Morral, known as the person responsible for the criminal attack against Alfonso XIII and Victoria Eugenia on the 31st of May 1906, the day they were married, and the poem of Vicenç Altaió.
The edition is accompanied by Vicenç Altaió’s poem, "L'extremista del silenci. El mut" (The Extremist of Silence. The Mute Person”, published in 1982 in the book Biathànatos or the “L'elogi del suïcidi” (The Praise of Suicide”) by the Mall Editions.
The poem is signed by the author and numbered from 1/500 to 500/500.
«With this engraving, in this present context of historical acceleration, we vindicate the figure of Mateu Morral from an artistic point of view, in the same manner of Beuys, for the ethical regeneration. This engraving is an icon that confronts the monarchy and this rises like an anti-material. In this way we compensate the memory of a Republic librarian and anarchist. We denounce the way of silencing and manipulating the reality represented by the monarchic repression.»
Vicenç Altaió
