Resurr Exit

Resurr Exit; 1986/2007

On 27 April 1985, Laibach finally released their first album in Slovenia (on the independent label ŠKUC - R.o.p.o.t) containing music recorded in 1983. The album was originally meant to be released on the state-owned ZKP RTV label (Založba kaset in plošč - RTV Ljubljana), but due to the banning of the band's name, and consequent activities, in 1983, the album was not released until two years later, and even then, only in a censored form (with no mention of the band's name, and with the intended sound clips from Tito's speeches removed).

On this occasion Laibach created a promotional poster which - in addition to the album cover - also featured the band's name. The main motif of the poster is a black cross - Laibach's distinctive symbol - to which is added the figure of the Saviour on the cross, borrowed from an anti-Nazi poster made by John Heartfield in 1934.

The title of Heartfield's poster is "As in the Middle Ages ... so in the Third Reich", and it consists of two parts: the illustration above shows a medieval sculpture of Saint George tied to a large wooden wheel, while the bottom shows a similar victim of National Socialism tied to a swastika. John Heartfield used his friend Erwin Geschonneck as a model for the victim, who posed naked for the photo on an equilateral (i.e. Greek, Swiss, etc) cross, the kind used by Laibach on their poster. The title "Resurr Exit" is a play on the Latin word resurrexit, meaning rebirth or resurrection. 

Silkscreen print on paper: 100 x 70 cm, limited edition of 65 in the series, numbered, signed, and stamped with an original Laibach seal.

All posters are suitably protected and shipped in a cardboard tube, separately from the other ordered items.