"Ignorance = Fear = Silence
= Death/ Fight Aids Act Up", 1989
Poster, Offset Lithograph, Publisher- AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), Signed in Print, 24 x 43 in. (60.96 x 109.22 cm.)
Condition:
Near MINT- no fading, minor edge wear/light handling, sharp corners, excellent example (see pics). Provenance:
Private Collection, Zurich
Note:
Representing in a urban contemporary language the metaphor of the three monkeys "Do not see, Do not Hear, Do not speak". On behalf of the New York-based AIDS activist group AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), Keith Haring designed and executed this poster in 1989 after the artist had been diagnosed the previous year. Haring's imagery here references the 'three wise monkeys' that, "see nothing, hear nothing, say nothing". Within this illustration Haring refers to the public's ignorance with respect to Aids and calls for critical awareness of the 'facts'.
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