Abel Azcona: el artista detonante (2024)

Our film starts with the events that took place in the city of Pamplona in 2015, where Abel Azcona exhibited his work "Amen". In this work Abel formed the word "Pederasty" with 242 consecrated hosts obtained in 242 Catholic masses. 242 is also the number of documented cases of child sexual abuse within the Catholic Church in northern Spain. Abel Azcona, in fact, is one of those 242 victims of child sexual abuse. As a result of this action, a huge controversy arose in the city, which spread to other places, with massive demonstrations against it (and some in favor). The pinnacle of the opposition to this action of Abel Azcona was the denunciation of the Christian Lawyers Association for religious hate crime. Due to this denunciation, Abel Azcona spent 8 years of judicial prosecution, with a search and arrest warrant that led him to go into exile in Portugal. Finally the case was dismissed by the judge, and the work was acquired by the Museum of Forbidden Art in Barcelona, and is permanently exhibited in the museum along with other persecuted works of authors such as Goya, Klimt or Warhol.