Freedom is a struggle

To celebrate its tenth anniversary, Laveronica Arte Contemporanea presented the exhibition “Freedom Is a Constant Struggle” by Emory Douglas, an artist who has tied his name to the Black Panther Party, the revolutionary black nationalist party in the United States, and who made militancy for civil rights and the battle to free the oppressed its raison d’être. His works have inspired and influenced the iconic and symbolic imagination of many third-world liberation movements in Latin America, Asia and Africa. More recently, they have become a benchmark for the street-art culture.

  Douglas’s art endured even after the Black Panther Party disbanded in 1982, and today it represents a corpus of thousands of images, posters, comics, collages and photomontages, which in the contemporary collective imagination forms one of the most powerful visual interpretations of the struggle. The illustrations hinged not only on specifically racial topics, but more generally on the concept of empowerment, the fight against poverty, discrimination, imperialism, immigration policy, freedom for political prisoners, better working conditions in industrial “prisons”, the collective organization of free lunches, health care and schools for the lower classes.

until 15 December 2017
Emory Douglas: Freedom Is A Constant Struggle
Laveronica Arte Contemporanea
via Grimaldi 93, Modica, Italy