Catalonia stickers from 1970s-80s and stickers from Madrid, summer 2012

Oli Baudach at Hatch Kingdom (Berlin) gave me a rare and very special collection of political street art stickers from Catalonia dating from the late 1970s and early ’80s.  Oli is originally from Barcelona.  A friend of his father’s gave them to Oli, and Oli in turn shared some with me.  From what Oli told me, many of these stickers were put up in public places to protest the Franco regime, and doing such a thing at the time could cost one dearly.  I’ll be working with Dr. Marina Llorente and one of her Spanish classes at SLU this fall…