1980 Aqui Magazine Conceptual Art Poster Print Freedom Issue 1 Cliff Baldwin
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H 69 in W 45 in D 0.5 in
1980 Aqui Magazine Conceptual Art Poster Print Freedom Issue 1 Cliff Baldwin
Located in Dayton, OH
"AQUI! Issue #1 Poster, circa 1980s It reads: ""Free? Do I look Free? I live on a leash. My boss, the landlord, the damn bank, IRS and the ACLU, even my kids, they tell me what to do. Cameras watch me buy food, the phone company lists my friends, traffic lights decide when I can walk and television when I can sleep. So tell me, where is this freedom?"" ""Freedom,"" he said, ""is your right to ignore the man."" AQUI! 457 COURT ST BKLYN NY USA 11231 In small print: This is AQUI!, the internationally distributed single image magazine. You can get it for $10.00. It’s worth it. During the 1980s, the colorful, illustrative oversized posters of AQUI Magazine were lining the streets of New York City, sold at bookstores such as MoMA bookstore and Printed Matter, and displayed at art institutions around the world. From 1983-1986, Cliff Baldwin, Julie Bradrick and Davi Det Hompson collaborated with silk-screener Norman Lassiter and published ten issues of AQUI in Downtown Manhattan. AQUI provided the public with accessible quality art at the price of $10 a poster, an affordable alternative to the traditional art gallery. The tabloid-sized, folded posters unfolded into one of two sizes: 45 x 69” and 35 x 45,” and featured silk-screened original artwork by Barbara Kruger, Les Levine, Steve Gianakos...
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