Photorama is known as a once-a-year opportunity to purchase art at reduced prices, however it is also an opportunity to buy work by artists that are not available through commercial galleries. A case in point would be Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge who are highly revered for their collaborative art practice dedicated to fostering social change.
Condé and Beveridge have participated in Photorama throughout its 25 year history. This year they are offering a new work representative of their elaborately produced photomontages dealing with one of the most politically charged events in recent history entitled Liberty Lost.
Liberty Lost (G20, Toronto), Lightjet print, 40 x 60 inches, 2010.
$350 unframed
The following description was provided by the artists:
Liberty Lost (G20, Toronto) is the artists’ response to the events surrounding the G20 Summit in Toronto in 2010, and, in particular, the massive and repressive police presence. It is loosely based on Eugene Delacroix’s painting Liberty Guiding the People (sometimes referred to as ‘Liberty on the Barricades’) painted during the insurrection of 1830 in Paris.
While Delacroix’s painting represents the struggle for liberal or parliamentary democracy in 18th and 19th century France, Liberty Lost represents the limits of that form of democracy; a form that protects private ownership and wealth.
