Comments on: Chill’n like a Villian https://nzartprints.co.nz/2010/03/chilln-like-a-villian/ Art Fri, 14 Dec 2012 22:36:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.4 By: Dylan Wright https://nzartprints.co.nz/2010/03/chilln-like-a-villian/#comment-309 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:51:49 +0000 https://nzartprints.co.nz/?p=1269#comment-309 found this today and thought hmmm.

http://www.ventilate.ca/features/2010/feb/poster_03.html

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By: Elliot https://nzartprints.co.nz/2010/03/chilln-like-a-villian/#comment-288 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:25:00 +0000 https://nzartprints.co.nz/?p=1269#comment-288 Ah, we were hoping someone would notice the mao poster. The owner appreciates it for its collectible history and graphic design as a political poster.

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By: Dylan Wright https://nzartprints.co.nz/2010/03/chilln-like-a-villian/#comment-287 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:15:11 +0000 https://nzartprints.co.nz/?p=1269#comment-287 The photo of the storm trooper & Mao seems fucking surreal to me, how through aesthetics alone certain things can become potent, even predictable pieces of pop culture.

“Mao’s policies and political purges from 1949 to 1975 are widely believed to have caused the deaths of between 50 to 70 million people.”

Thats much more than hitler and stalin combined. Crazy we hang it on our walls isn’t it? Next to a storm trooper or some designer clock. We put things in a frame, in a different context. Emphasizing the aesthetic but not once acknowledging the facts. Kind of sleeping almost..

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