Molotov Cocktail, 8/10

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Aviado’s print process preserves the qualities of his quick drawing lines: lightness of touch, ingenuous use of script, and a painterly color field. The glass bottle with a cloth fuse and liquid content are finely wrought in line and color, in a combination of strong line and impasto-like “painting”. Aviado, a master printmaker, exhibits in this print his trust in a print process that will slightly alter the outcome per print in an edition. It is in this sense that Aviado’s work, such as in this case, is a unique and original print, notwithstanding printmaking’s character as fundamentally reproducible. “Molotov Cocktail” also animates the relation of print to activism: the cocktail, a home-made bomb, was ubiquitous during the anti-Marcos struggle from the 1970s to the 1980s.

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