
Bauhaus artists such as Kandinsky, Klee and Itten, as well as the surrealist film-maker Luis Bunuel and his friend Salvador Dali, were said to be the inspiration behind a series of secret cells and torture centres built in Barcelona and elsewhere...
"The avant garde forms of the moment - surrealism and geometric abstraction - were thus used for the aim of committing psychological torture.
"The creators of such revolutionary and liberating [artistic] languages could never have imagined that they would be so intrinsically linked to repression."