RESURR EXIT, 1986/2017

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

On 27 April 27 1985, Laibach finally released their first album in Slovenia (for the independent ŠKUC – R.o.p.o.t. label), with music recorded already in 1983. The album was originally supposed to be released by the state record company ZKP RTV (Label for Cassettes and Discs – Radio TV Ljubljana), but due to the ban on the name (and, consequently, operation) of the group in 1983, the album was only released two years later and still in censored form (without mention of the name and with the audio clips from Tito's speeches removed).

On this occasion, Laibach created a promotional poster, which besides the album name on the cover also prominently included the name of the group. The basic motif of the poster is a black cross – the recognizable symbol of Laibach – with a figure from an anti-Nazi poster made by John Heartfield in 1934 added to it in the pose of a saviour on a crucifix. 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 meanings, and comes from the Latin word ‘resurrexit’, which means rebirth or resurrection. The title is also a reference to Marcel Duchamp and Anselm Kiefer, both of whom had used a similar title in their works.

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