A cross incorporating a montage of pink heart muscles, pink triangles, crossed red and green squares, the AIDS red ribbon on a stamp, flowers, a hand and a version of the American flag; on a background coloured in green crayon incorporating a montage of photographs including Christ's head of thorns and a hand injecting a syringe into an arm; on a further black background bearing the brown lettering: 'el colonialismo' [colonialism]; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Juan Sánchez, ca. 1995.

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[1995?]
Reference:
676030i
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view A cross incorporating a montage of pink heart muscles, pink triangles, crossed red and green squares, the AIDS red ribbon on a stamp, flowers, a hand and a version of the American flag; on a background coloured in green crayon incorporating a montage of photographs including Christ's head of thorns and a hand injecting a syringe into an arm; on a further black background bearing the brown lettering: 'el colonialismo' [colonialism]; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Juan Sánchez, ca. 1995.

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A cross incorporating a montage of pink heart muscles, pink triangles, crossed red and green squares, the AIDS red ribbon on a stamp, flowers, a hand and a version of the American flag; on a background coloured in green crayon incorporating a montage of photographs including Christ's head of thorns and a hand injecting a syringe into an arm; on a further black background bearing the brown lettering: 'el colonialismo' [colonialism]; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Juan Sánchez, ca. 1995. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Publication/Creation

Paris [137 boulevard Del. Magenta 75010 Paris](France) : Artis, [1995?] (France; Imprimé en France par Graficaza)

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 84.1 x 59.4 cm

Lettering

El Colonialismo. Es el verdadero SIDA. Imágenes contra el SIDA. Artis. Paris - France. Juan Sánchez. Also bears further lettering along bottom: 'es el verdadero SIDA' [AIDS is real] Signed by Juan Sanchez, an black American artist born 1954

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Juan Sanchez [artist] Artis 1994? Artis 12/05/2008 France UkLW Transcription from the item

Reference

Wellcome Collection 676030i

Creator/production credits

Juan Sanchez has dealt with the topic of colonialism and AIDS more recently in a poster entitled 'Colonialismo es la SIDA Verdadera' (Colonialism is the Real AIDS), 2000

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