One of the attractions at Art Basel HK 2018,
Esther Schipper gallery from Berlin presents the
collective artists General Idea's work "Green (Permanent) PLA©EBO".
General Idea 's members are three Canadian artists: Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal, and AA Bronson.
Their works were internationally renowned in the 1970s.
Their major installation “One Year of AZT and One Day of AZT”
was created in 1991. It shows AZT (Medicine which can control the HIV virus)
displayed on the wall, showing the daily, monthly, yearly doses.
General Idea kept created art until Partz and Zontal's death from AIDS in 1994.
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