Ecce Che Print - Limited Edition of 23

“Ecce Che” fuses two contemporary cultural icons: Korda’s photograph of Che Guevara “Guerrillero Heroico” (1960) and the art meme “Ecce Mono” (2012) with amateur Cecilia Giménez’s botched “Ecce Homo” fresco restoration. Individually and fused, they reveal the frightful reality of distorting great and complex humanistic ideals by inappropriate use of the images associated with them. One of the most prominent examples of the appropriation and usurpation of the humanistic revolutionary and counter-cultural ideas as commercial goods must be the use of the image of the leader of the Latino-American communist revolution Ernesto Che Guevara, which simultaneously celebrates and distorts his political idea for a revolutionary change. And the way amateur Giménez ruined the 100-year-old artistic inheritance—wholeheartedly believing that she is restoring her favorite fresco—bears the same meaning in relation to art, strangely coinciding with the subversive potential of “Ecce Homo” frescoes to face the crowds with their moral fall. Intentionally or not, in my Politickin’ cycle, I am dealing with contemporary culture themes that have political background or are a type of commentary on certain imposed political or quasi-political situations. I am interested in what is left of the visual symbols that used to represent big humanistic ideas after the human politicking psyche had appropriated and recreated them into something completely different. Similarly to the destiny of the visual language of graphic design in contemporary marketing, web-communication, and in our global market society in general. I find it interesting that people have always been inclined to this kind of deviation and usurpation of all great ideas and ideologies in line with their own mental capacity, needs, and goals, regardless whether the perpetrators are uneducated individuals devoid of political ambitions or influential international oligarchs with enormous political machinery to support their agenda.

Printmaking:Screenprinting on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:23

Size:26 W x 26 H x 0 D in

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