Peter KENNARD, Stop, 1973

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Photomontage - Gelatin silver prints and ink on card

17 x 12 cm

“This came out of my involvement with the anti-Vietnam protests. Vietnam was one of the most awful crimes of my lifetime, the murder of more than one million Vietnamese killed...

“This came out of my involvement with the anti-Vietnam protests. Vietnam was one of the most awful crimes of my lifetime, the murder of more than one million Vietnamese killed and sixty thousand Americans. This is a poster for a series of paintings that I made over the following few years called the ‘STOP’ paintings. It uses an image of a dead Vietnamese and a U.S. soldier. Here the soldier is in negative and the figure of the Vietnamese is in positive. I started making the anti-Vietnam work after I went on a huge anti-war demonstration in March 1968, which went to Grosvenor Square and became quite famous. After going to that demonstration, I wanted to find new ways to work beyond painting. At that time, I had been painting but then started using images from newspaper and magazines, tearing them up and reconstructing the images. That was the beginning of me making photomontage.” – Peter Kennard

Exhibitions

Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 23 Jul 2024 – 19 Jan 2025
On Hannah Arendt: The Concept of History (Solo Exhibition), Richard Saltoun Gallery London, 2021

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Richard Saltoun Gallery| LONDON

RICHARD SALTOUN GALLERY| ROME

RICHARD SALTOUN GALLERY| NEW YORK

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Peter KENNARD British, b. 1949

Exhibitions