Post Visit Palestine

Details

Amer Shomali (Palestinian, b. 1981)
Post Visit Palestine
signed and dated in Arabic, numbered ‘2/6’ (lower right)
silkscreen on cotton paper
39 3/8 x 27 ½in. (100 x 70cm.)
Executed in 2009, this work is number two from an edition of six

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

Post Visit Palestine is a satiric appropriation of the original 1936 Visit Palestine poster. Visit Palestine poster was designed by the Israeli artist Franz Kraus in 1936, and published by a Zionist development agency to encourage a critical mass prior to the foundation of Israel. In 1995, another Israeli artist David Tartakover reprinted the poster as a way of celebrating the optimism generated by the Oslo Peace Accords.
After the failure of the peace process it was the time for a third print declaring the failure of the previous two prints. (Amer Shomali, 2016)

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