GENERAL IDEA 1969-1994
8901
AIDS 1989
Welded metal: 305 x 305 x 152 mm
Prototype for an edition never completed
Based on the LOVE edition in polished aluminum by Robert Indiana. Production costs brought the project
to a halt.
8902
AIDS 1989/90
Offset on adhesive-backed paper: 160 x 160 mm
Edition size unknown, some signed and dated (1990), unnumbered
Published by Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher
AIDS-STIFTUNGEN, Germany
General Idea designed the AIDS logo for the German AIDS Foundation using the black-red-yellow colours of the German flag.
It was used for posters, pamphlets, lottery tickets, and advertising stickers.
See 8903-8908, 9002.
8903
AIDS 1989
Offset on adhesive-backed paper: 80 x 80 mm
Edition size unknown, unsigned and unnumbered
Published by Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher
AIDS-STIFTUNGEN, Germany
See 8902, 8904-8908, 9002.
8904
AIDS 1989
Offset on paper: 840 x 590 mm
Edition size unknown, unsigned and unnumbered
Published by Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher
AIDS-STIFTUNGEN, Germany
Poster for the German AIDS Foundation.
See 8902, 8903, 8905-8908, 9002.
8905
AIDS ("Art Against AIDS") 1989/90
Offset on paper: 840 x 590 mm
Edition size unknown, unsigned and unnumbered
Published by Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher
AIDS-STIFTUNGEN, Germany
Poster, with advertising text, for the fundraising project Art Against AIDS 1990 Bundesweite Aktion in Über 100 Galerien, Cologne, 1 November - 1 December 1990.
See 8902-8904, 8906-8908, 9002.
8906
AIDS (Art Against AIDS 1990) 1989/90
Offset on adhesive-backed paper: 85 x 60 mm
Edition size unknown, unsigned and unnumbered
Published by Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher
AIDS-STIFTUNGEN, Germany
Advertising sticker for the fundraising project Art Against AIDS 1990 Bundesweite Aktion in Über 100 Galerien, Cologne, 1 November - 1 December 1990.
See 8902-8905, 8907, 8908, 9002.
8907
AIDS "Gewinnen und helfen" 1989
Offset on paper: 592 x 420 mm
Edition size unknown, some signed, unnumbered
Published by Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher
AIDS-STIFTUNGEN, Germany
General Idea designed the AIDS logo for the German AIDS Foundation using the black-red-yellow colours of the German flag.
This poster, for the "Gewinnen und helfen" fundraising lottery campaign, was the first of a series of posters, pamphlets, lottery tickets, and
advertising stickers.
See 8902-8906, 8908, 9002.
8908
AIDS (Lottery Ticket) 1989
3 parts, offset on paper: each 106 x 162 mm
Edition size unknown, unsigned and unnumbered
Published by Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher
AIDS-STIFTUNGEN, Germany
Lottery ticket for the "Gewinnen und helfen"
fundraising campaign. General Idea's AIDS logo is
used on all three sheets.
See 8902-8907, 9002.
8909
AIDS (A Project of the Public Art Fund Inc.) 1989
Offset on card: 560 x 533 mm
Edition of 4900, of which 200 are signed and numbered
Published by Public Art Fund Inc., New York
Poster edition, installed in every second car in the
New York City subway system.
See 8702, 8703, 8802, 9109.
8910
AIDS Wallpaper 1989
Screenprint on wallpaper; roll: 686 x 46 (diam.) mm; unrolled: 4570 x 686 mm
Unlimited edition, unsigned and unnumbered
Self-published
Produced for various gallery installations, as an
unlimited edition, and reproducing General Idea's
classic red-green-blue AIDS logo. Installation view, Stampa Galerie at Frankfurt Art Fair, Frankfurt, 1989.
See 8919, 9102, 9406.
8911
Eye of the Beholder 1989
Chenille, embroidery on crest-shaped felt: 240 x 210 mm
Unlimited edition (less than 100 produced), unsigned and unnumbered
Self-published
See 8807-8811, 8818, 8917, 9003, 9104, 9112.
8913
General Idea: Hamburg Projekt 1989 1989
Offset on paper, 12 pp., black-and-white reproductions: 327 x 240 mm
Edition size unknown, unsigned and unnumbered
Published by Kulturbehörde Hamburg, Hamburg
Included in a boxed set of artists' projects published to accompany Hamburg Projekt 1989,
an exhibition of temporary site-specific public artworks around the city of Hamburg, 1989.
8914
General Idea: The AIDS Project 1989
Offset on paper, 12 pp., colour reproductions (insert in C, no. 22, June 1989, unnumbered insert between pp. 40-41): 275 x 205 mm
Edition size unknown, of which 100 were kept as
off-prints, unsigned and unnumbered
Published by C and Gershon Iskowitz Foundation, Toronto
Project produced as a special 7-colour insert in
C magazine. Also included in the catalogue General Idea: The AIDS Project (Toronto: Gershon Iskowitz Foundation, 1989), with an essay by Allan Schwartzman.
8915
Imagevirus (Posters) 1989
Chromogenic print: 760 x 504 mm
Edition of 6 plus 1 A/P, signed and numbered
Self-published
Documents General Idea's AIDS poster project on the streets of New York in 1987. The various Imagevirus works are based on an Absolut Vodka advertising
campaign.
See 8703, 8916, 9107-9109.
8916
Imagevirus (Times Square) 1989
Chromogenic print: 760 x 504 mm
Edition of 6 plus 1 A/P, signed and numbered
Self-published
Documents General Idea's AIDS animation for the Spectacolor Board in Times Square, New York. The
various Imagevirus works are based on an Absolut Vodka advertising campaign.
See 8915, 9107-9109.
8917
Lucre 1989
Chenille on crest-shaped felt: 240 x 210 mm
Unlimited edition (less than 100 produced), unsigned and unnumbered
Self-published
See 8807-8811, 8818, 8911, 9003, 9104, 9112.
8918
Nightschool 1989
Chromogenic print (Ektachrome): 955 x 767 mm
Edition of 12 plus 1 A/P, signed and numbered
Self-published
See 9005.
8919
Test Pattern Wallpaper 1989
Screenprint on wallpaper, in plastic box with gold
hot-stamping
Box: 770 x 55 x 50 mm; roll: 760 x 46 (diam.) mm; unrolled: 4572 x 760 mm
Edition of 101 plus 16 A/Ps, signed and numbered
Published by Galerie Drrie * Priess, Hamburg
See 8812-8817, 8910, 9102, 9406.
8920
Untitled 1989
Wood, paint: 300 x 200 x 40 mm
Prototype for an edition never completed
8921
Žen Cocktail Holder 1989
Steel, brass, 1 glass test tube: 250 x 150 x 25 mm
Prototype for an edition never completed
Produced for the Žen Boutique (1989) but the edition was never completed due to production costs.