Olla Art’s most recent acquisition is this very powerful and colourful lithograph by Joe Tilson. He made the lithograph, which has a generous size, in 1983, as part of the ‘Artists of the World against Apartheid’ campaign.
Against apartheid
‘Artists of the World against Apartheid’ was founded in 1980 by the painters Antonio Saura and Ernest Pignon-Ernest. The aim was to make a stand against the apartheid regime in South Africa.
Many celebrated international artists participated, such as Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Claes Oldenberg, Tom Phillips, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist, and Pierre Soulages. They supplied works that were exhibited in museums and other places throughout the world.
The first exhibition took place in Paris, during the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, on 21 March 1983.
Lithograph, 85 x 60 cm
Stedelijk Museum
The lithograph offered is an ‘hors commerce’ copy, outside the regular edition of one hundred copies. There is also a copy in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. That copy is hand-titled ‘Against Apartheid’ by Tilson (in the yellow area at the bottom right).
More by Tilson
More work by Joe Tilson and a short biography can be found here. Also read the newsletter that Olla Art recently published about Tilson.