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Infe©ted Mondrian #2 (1994) by General Idea was acquired with the generous support of the Mondriaan Fund and the International Collector Circle and Curator Circle of the Stedelijk Museum Foundation.
The Stedelijk Museum has acquired the painting Infe©ted Mondrian #2 (1994) by the artists’ collective General Idea. The work is part of the last, internationally renowned series Imagevirus, and a direct copy of a painting by Piet Mondriaan, but is “contaminated” with a green patch. By “infecting” modernist icons with the so-called GI virus, the artists Jorge Zontal, Felix Partz and AA Bronson of General Idea wanted to openly address the AIDS crisis, a central theme in their work. Read More