THE DEATH OF IDEOLOGY, 1981/2017

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

At the top of the image, portraits of four anonymous mortals representing the four symbolic, pseudonymous members of the Laibach group – called Eber, Saliger, Dachauer, and Keller – appear for the first time. The names are borrowed from four regime painters of the Third Reich, performers of the ideological art of engineering human souls. The four portraits are inspired by the works (and methods) of the Austrian neo-expressionist painter Arnulf Rainer, as well as by George E. Romero's 1968 film Night of the Living Dead, which depicts modern consumer society as an epidemic of ideological cannibalism in which the dead are never truly dead and keep returning among the living.

At the bottom, there are portraits of three classical figures of Marxism: Marx, Engels, and Lenin. In communist countries, the fourth portrait space was reserved for a local leader, for example Stalin, Mao Zedong, or Tito. Since the poster was created shortly after Tito’s death in 1980, here this space remained an empty, black rectangle (waiting for him to maybe return from the dead).

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