General Idea, Nine Lives

Hamburg, Edition Helga Maria Klosterfelde, 1992. Ship flag, silkscreen print on fabric, 100 x 150 cm, in costum made box. Edition of 500, 60 signed and numbered, 440 numbered. This copy is numbered 168/500 on the back of the box. Each skull on the flag refers to one member of General Idea. Fine copy.

General Idea (Toronto, 1967-1994) was an artists' collective made up of Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson, striving to critique popular and media culture by way of humour, parody, and irony. From 1987 onwards their work addressed the AIDS crisis, both Partz and Zontal died of AIDS in 1994.