Gaceta Callejere: Cannibal Rats

 

Art Hazelwood

  1961 - PRESENT (biography)

2020  

screenprint 

16 1/8 x 11 3/8" image size 

pencil, lower right 

10 of 12  

Text within image: Cannibal / Rats! / Vlad / Don / Vik / Jair / CDC warms of aggressive cannibal rat facing shortage of garbage to eat 

 

sturdy buff wove 

published 

artist 

ARHA204 

$100.00 

In the article “An Artist for the Moment,” Paul Von Blum wrote: “Hazelwood’s highly detailed woodcuts, etchings, lithographs, and book projects make him the legitimate heir of major political artists including Posada, Kollwitz, Daumier, and Goya. His recent works respond in imaginative ways to the present crises and the barbaric “leaders” who have created them…. “Cannibal Rats” locates Trump in the company of others whose actions and inactions have led to unnecessary deaths. This artwork, another dispatch from Gaceta Callejera, depicts Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, China’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, and Hungary’s Viktor Orbán as fellow rodents. It reinforces Trump’s well-known affinity for authoritarianism and for dictatorial rulers throughout the world.”