DIE FREIHEIT FUEHRT DAS VOLK - GERHILDA, 1985/2017

Please note: The piece is, and will be supplied, unframed 

The image on this ‘German’ version of the poster is related to Delacroix's motif in the painting Liberty Leading the People. The central part of the poster quotes Delacroix's study of a painting with the image of Liberty, the female symbol of the French Republic, Marianne, who embodies freedom. In the picture, Marianne is holding a French tricolour in her hands, while behind the picture there is a stick to which the flag is attached, which is only loosely sketched and in Liberty's hands looks more like a long knife. The poster also palimpsestly depicts a scene from a 1930 Nazi parade in Munich, when the de facto Nazi ‘libertarian revolution’ began in Germany.

In the lower part of the poster, in the perspective of the street, the shadow of half of Laibach's symbol – a black cross – dominates, which ends in a horizontal line with the name of the group. A version of the poster was included in the Suitcase for Spiritual Use, launched by the Neue Slowenische Kunst art collective in 1985 as part of artistic propaganda campaigns in support of the theatre project Krst pod Triglavom (Baptism under Triglav).

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