The monument becomes a pretext for new forms of political action, based on fidelity to historical struggles but offering a stage for the future. In our times of growing fascism, neoliberal capitalist imperialism, and financial warfare, Iveković’s Monument to Revolution is both a cautionary reminder of the past, an object to be contested, and a material invocation. […]
Tag Archives: Rosa Luxemburg
To give you a brief respite from documenta 14, from my memories of Athens and preparations for Kassel, here is R. B. Kitaj’s 1960 work “The Murder of Rosa Luxemburg”. I saw this sublime work at the Picasso Museum here in Malaga, as part of the exhibition “Bacon, Freud, y la Escuela de Londres” and […]