ARTISTS AGAINST THE
BOMB - book




The book features participating works and the artists biographies, along with a foreword by executive director of ICAN, Melissa Parke, a text by Pedro Reyes which reviews the history of antinuclear movements, and lastly, a redesigned booklet of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). 

El libro reúne las obras participantes junto con biografías de los artistas, además de un prólogo de la directora ejecutiva de ICAN, Melissa Parke, un texto de Pedro Reyes que repasa la historia de los movimientos antinucleares y, por último, un folleto rediseñado del Tratado sobre la Prohibición de las Armas Nucleares (TPNW por sus siglas en inglés).







 SAM DURANT  x  AATB 






  FANNY   RABEL   x  AATB   






    FERO JABLONOVSKÝ   x   AATB  


 




PAUL MILLER x   AATB







  SUPERFLEX  x   AATB


 




   PEACE   PILGRIM  x AATB    







CND x AATB








  TIM BISKUP  x  AATB  







  CENTER FOR TACTICAL MAGIC x AATB  





  BULLETIN OF ATOMIC SCIENTISTS x AATB






  KARL HOLMQVIST x AATB  



  NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT x AATB  


YUKARI HIRANO & TSUBASA KATO x AATB
NUCLEAR WAR IS OVER x AATB
SEAN DOWER x AATB










Organized by Estudio Pedro Reyes
in collaboration with ICAN






ARTISTS AGAINST THE BOMB is an exhibition of posters that call for universal nuclear disarmament. Each made by a different artist, the group comprises historical and newly
commissioned works that detail a cultural history of disarmament movements and evidence the diversity of ways in which artists have expressed the need to ban the bomb. ARTISTS AGAINST THE BOMB is designed for maximum agility and economic effectiveness, relying on a black and white palette both for its impact and ease o reproduction. We asked artists to ensure their works can exist on a variety of supports, ephemera such as posters, postcards, billboards, banners, flags, t-shirts and social media posts, as we aspire to achieve the widest possible circulation of this message.

ARTISTS AGAINST THE BOMB presents the works of foundational conceptual artists Art & Language; pop hero, Keith Haring; legendary feminists, Guerrilla Girls; performance artists Regina José Galindo and Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova, as well
as eminent sculptors Magdalena Abakanowicz and Isamu Noguchi. It also features indelible photographs by Robert Del Tredici and Ken Domon alongside protest graphics from social movements such as the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), founded in 1958 and still active; the epic Peace Squadron and Visual Artists Against Nuclear Arms (VAANA); and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). Additionally, it examines how stories are told, from the theater of Bread and Puppet to films like Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove and Marguerite Duras / Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima Mon Amour, to an unexpected survey of literature, from an early
anticipation of an atomic bomb, first envisioned by H.G. Wells in 1918, to the viscera spoken word poetry of Jayne Cortez.

ARTISTS AGAINST THE BOMB, organized by Estudio Pedro Reyes in collaboration with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), is presented on the occasion of the Second Meeting of State Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) held at the United Nations in 2023.

To organize en exhibition of ARTISTS AGAINST THE BOMB please contact curatorial assistant Verana Codina.


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