A walkway curving around into a street plaza/square populated with people engaged in various activities with numerous signs with messages relating to AIDS and HIV; an advertisement by the Comision Anti-SIDA de Alava. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.

Álava (C/San Francisco 2-1., ... Apdo. Correos. 796, Vitoria-Gasteiz) : Comision Anti-SIDA de Alava, [1997?]

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 63 x 38 cm

Vamos a enterarnos de que va esta historia. Comision Anti-SIDA de Alava Arabako Hies Kontrako Komite Hiritarra ... Jabe Gaitezen Historiotxu Honek Dioenaz. Includes: Superman kissing a figure in a similar grey costume bearing the badge 'salud ate'; a man dressed in a white suit apparently pouring a solution [of bleach?] on to a syringe; a fat man in blue and white striped trousers with a green belt and bare chest carrying 3three crates of condoms down the lower walkway; a man in a pink robe with a long white beard throwing a syringe into a bin; a man in a white shirt with a bow tie smiling as he carries another man under his arm apparently within a condom; a boy looking at a discarded helmet on the floor with a dog barking angrily at it; a boy offering a condom from purple boxes labelled 'Kondones don Manolo' to a girl with a pink bow in her hair ... Lettering within image includes: 'El SIDA va con todos es tu salud entérate' [banner across square]; 'Estamos Enfrente' [grafitti along wall with arrow]; 'No es condas la cabeza el SIDA va contigo' [placard in square] ...

Comision Anti-SIDA de Alava 1997? Comision Anti-SIDA de Alava see http://www.sidalava.org/ for contact details Spain 28/04/2009 UkLW Transcription from the item

Wellcome Collection 675706i