David Wojnarowicz was a gay activist and did many works
which expressed his thoughts and feelings on this subject and the subject of
AIDS. He was born in New Jersey in 1954 then proceeded to live and do most of
his work in the New York art world until he died in 1992 in New York City. This
work laid text of a silkscreen image to communicate the artists feelings about
AIDS affect on the human body and soul. This powerful technique of using an
image with text is still used today for advertising.
This work belongs in this show because it has a
direct connection to death. Clearly, this piece shows death as part of the
forefront of the image. The inspiring force behind this work is David's
experience with death of friends by AIDS. Also, David himself died of AIDS
at young age of only thirty-eight. Conclusively, David is now one of the
skeletons in his silkscreen image and is a part of the text lying in front of
the crumbling corpses.
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