LJUBLJANA - ZAGREB - BELGRADE, 1987/2017

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

In 1987, when Slobodan Milošević was already pursuing a Greater Serbia nationalist policy and political, nationalist, and economic tensions in Yugoslavia were escalating, the disintegration of the state no longer seemed impossible. At their 12^th Congress in Krško, the ZSMS (League of Socialist Youth of Slovenia) submitted a request to lift the ban on the use of the name Laibach and allow the group to function normally. The ban was lifted the following year, and on 25 September 1987 Laibach performed a concert under its own name in Golovec Hall in Celje at the invitation of the UK ZSMS (University Conference ZSMS).

On this occasion, the present artwork was created as a poster (in collaboration with NK – New Collectivism). On it we can see Yugoslavia as the ‘black hole’ in the background (from which there is no return), and around it the effect of fire is created by the woodcutting technique, which mercilessly surrounds the country. The character of the dove of peace – which everyone was talking about while they were preparing for war – dominates in the foreground. But the pigeon is probably more 'trapped' in the hands and it looks like it is hard for it to fly in freedom. In the case of Yugoslavia, it certainly did not succeed.

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