The Opening of the "From History of Human Stupidity"

Here are a few photos from the opening of my show From History of Human Stupidity at Gallery HDD - Hrvatsko dizajnersko društvo / Croatian Designers Association in Zagreb, Croatia.

The show is going to be open till October 1st, 2021. 

 

"Fake For Real"

I just received a catalogue for the show Fake For Real, A history of Forgery and Falsification. The show is on display in the House of European History. It's a project of the European Parliament.

One of the posters from my collection of posters for the Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition in Belgrade in 1941 is included. It's part of the show titled A Fake Conquers The World, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Here is a short quote of the organizer explaining the show:
"In the routine of daily life, the sensational, spectacular and supernatural are sweet seduction. They allow us to escape the ordinary. But the game of deception is only fun when we have agreed to it. When we are deliberately deceived, we are on the losing side in many regards, losing our money, credibility, integrity or even our existence.

While the current quantity of (dis)information is unprecedented, the problem is an ancient one. History is filled with countless examples of fake masquerading as real. The Trojan Horse, a mythological archetype of deception, symbolically links ancient history to very contemporary problems of the internet-dominated world.

From the lessons of the past, a roadmap can be pieced together: one that lets us wander into the realm of the fantastical and fabricated when we want to, while providing an exit strategy for when we are ready to return to reality."

 

"Steve Canyon" by Milton Caniff

I recently acquired this daily comic strip of Steve Canyon, by Milton Caniff from 1963.

 

I know that some of you are going to say "But there is no Steve Canyon in this strip". Yes, but look at this beautifully drawn cloud. On top of that, the subject of this story/strip is about the ethic tension between the Turks, the Greeks and the Communist agitators. 

 

What more can we expect from Cold War comics? My cup of tea. 

 

 

Guided Missiles

One of many the strange things in my collection.
GUIDED MISSILES "Modern Weapons For the Modern Army"
16 page pamphlet publish by The united States Army and General Electric Company in 1950s.