After the death of dictator Franco in 1975, a creative explosion, known as La Movida, emerged in Madrid: music, film, and art flourished in a full-blown revolution following 40 years of repression. The Galería Fernando Vijande became the artistic epicenter, featuring figures as diverse as Pedro Almodóvar, Alaska, and the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.

In 1983, Vijande brought Andy Warhol to open Guns, Knives, Crosses: about 12,000 visitors, countless photographers, journalists; artists and politicians, and only one artwork sold. Warhol – Vijande tracks, not only the conception and realisation of this disruptive and innovative exhibition, but also what it meant in the social and cultural scene of 1980s Madrid.