Christmas is a time for family and traditions. to shit the tio with blows from a cane It is the most typical and traditional, but, little by little, other customs of foreign origin have been gaining prominence in Catalan homes, such as Santa Claus, originating from northern Europe and the United States. Faced with the growing presence of Santa Claus symbolism in Christmas celebrations, the Komando Tió spontaneously emerged in 2009: a group that arose in La Bisbal d'Empordà and, with humor and parody, imitated the aesthetics of a terrorist group, incited the Catalan people to embrace the "red-bellied imperialism" of Santa Claus. Wearing balaclavas, plaid shirts, and traditional Catalan caps, with distorted voices, epic messages, and bombastic rhetoric, they plastered vines throughout the town's streets and tore down inflatable Santa Clauses from public spaces, publicizing their actions on Facebook. The initiative, with its joking tone but powerful underlying message, generated a large following, and several "guerrilla" groups from across the Catalan Countries joined the campaign. In 2016, however, they withdrew and called a truce, until this year, when they returned to the fray. From La Bisbal, with a forceful statement on Instagram. "We have seen how Santa Claus, general of the consumerist army, has once again infiltrated the balconies and streets of our country with his parasitic residue, laden with marketing and globalization. That is why Komando Tió officially declares the truce broken," five masked members of the Komando stated before the camera. And they added: "We return to symbolic actions of high risk and low logistics to fill La Bisbal with grapevines, barretinas (traditional Catalan caps), and our dignity."

Pere Noguera (La Bisbal d'Empordà, 1941) is one of the most solid and genuine voices of contemporary Catalan art. Capital exponent of thearte povera and the land art, has built over more than fifty years of experience a body of work faithful to humble materials, such as water, clay, and iron, always deploying a poetic discourse on matter, memory, identity, landscape, and the passage of time. Deeply rooted in his hometown, the capital of the Catalan pottery tradition, Noguera, the exhibition-installation Landscape. Clay Pulse, which can be visited until October 26.