The Communist Manifesto
Provenance : [Prior auction history]
2020-06-01, Aspire Art, "Art for Books | Clarkes Bookshop Fundraising Auction", lot 22, ZAR None
This work has been kindly donated by the artist
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Literature :
Notes : Dan Halter (b. 1977, Zimbabwe) is an artist whose practice is informed by his position as a Zimbabwean currently living in South Africa. His work deals with a sense of dislocated national identity, human migration and the dark humour of present realities in Southern Africa. Halter uses ubiquitous materials and engage with local popular visual strategies as a form of expression. His work often exploits the language of craft and curio in a conceptual art context. Working with Bienco Ikete, a refugee from the DRC for a number of years, together they have organised a way of weaving. The Communist Manifesto is made out of the entire text from The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels, one of the world’s most influential political documents. It looks analytically at the class struggle and at capitalism. Contemporary instances of communism are known as socialist market economies, practiced predominantly in China. China has also been the world’s fastest growing economy. This Chinese 100 RMB note made out The Communist Manifesto sums up this story visually.
Condition_report : Structure: The work is made up of woven paper and is float mounted and framed behind non-reflective glass. Surface: The surface of the work is textured due to the woven paper. The work is stable.
