Gabriel Gómez's fight to recover the Gypsy Chapel that her father painted in Modelo prison in 1950 has borne fruit: almost thirty years after Minister Núria de Gispert and the prison director made the controversial decision to cover it with white paint for hygiene reasons, this Thursday the Minister of Culture, Sònia Hernández Almodóvar, and the mayor of the murals. "The chapel is a heritage treasure that had been hidden for too long, and some people especially wanted it to remain hidden forever. And we have done the opposite: we have made a silenced memory visible," said Collboni, while the Minister announced that it will be declared a Cultural Asset of National Interest (BCIN).

The artist Helios Gómez defined himself as Sevillian, Catalan and, above all, a gypsy. Despite all the repression he suffered, he always remained faithful to his ideas. Gómez was always on the side of the people, and now his personal collection has become public, thanks to the donation that his son Gabriel has made to the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. The donation includes six paintings, twenty-seven drawings and an illustrated book. The museum has also purchased the three paintings that Gabriel Gómez had deposited in the museum and which can be seen in the modern art rooms: Evacuation, Andalusian sour and Airborne pain (parachute with the eye). "This donation changes the collection, and the museum becomes the reference centre for Helios Gómez, an absolutely key artist in the story of the avant-garde in Catalonia and Spain," says the museum's director, Pepe Serra. "I don't know if there is another artist as relevant in this condition of avant-garde, revolutionary, of the idea of art and conflict," he stresses. "My father showed the people with their hardships, the tortured, murdered people... A part that is normally hidden in art," says Gabriel Gómez, who has been promoting his father's work for three decades.