General Idea / General Idea at YYZ. AIDS Poster Project & Selected Videotapes
GENERAL IDEA (Collective) Felix Partz - Jorge Zontal - AA Bronson (Toronto, active from 1967 al 1994)
Toronto, 1988, poster illustrated with a color image, published for the exhibition (Toronto, General Idea, 25 May - 18 June 1988).
[Bibliography: Fischer 2003: pag. 186].
GENERAL IDEA (Collective) Felix Partz - Jorge Zontal - AA Bronson (Toronto, active from 1967 al 1994)
Toronto, 1988, poster illustrated with a color image, published for the exhibition (Toronto, General Idea, 25 May - 18 June 1988).
[Bibliography: Fischer 2003: pag. 186].
GENERAL IDEA (Collective) Felix Partz - Jorge Zontal - AA Bronson (Toronto, active from 1967 al 1994)
Toronto, 1988, poster illustrated with a color image, published for the exhibition (Toronto, General Idea, 25 May - 18 June 1988).
[Bibliography: Fischer 2003: pag. 186].
“AIDS (Wallpaper)” is one aspect of the collective activism around the AIDS epi- demic. The wallpaper’s repeating logo is based on the well-known LOVE motif by mid-1960s artist Robert Indiana, of which General Idea was appropriated starting in 1987, exploiting the familiarity of the icon to communicate a message relevant to a new historical moment, as AIDS was becoming an international serious problem.
