Peter Kennard awarded International Peace Alliance Arts Award
We are delighted to share the news that Peter Kennard has been awarded the International Peace Alliance Arts Award in recognition of his lifelong contribution to political art and photography. The award will be presented later this year alongside awards to filmmaker Ken Loach, visual artist Gerhard Richter and actor Susan Sarandon.
For more than fifty years, Peter’s work has challenged war, militarism, nuclear weapons and injustice, becoming some of the most influential political images of our time. In 1992, Kent Fine Art was pleased to collaborate with Kennard in conjunction with our focus on another great political artist, John Heartfield. At that time, Peter made us aware of his STOP cycle of paintings which we were pleased to present in New York. This impressive body of work is finally appearing in book form:
New publication: STOP: Peter Kennard
Kennard:
It was 1968. I joined the massive anti-Vietnam War demonstration in Trafalgar Square, and then the protest outside the American Embassy, ending in violent clashes with the police. In April, Martin Luther King was assassinated. In May, French students and workers demonstrated on the streets of Paris and almost brought down the government. 1968 was a political awakening for me. Until that time I had been painting, but the revolutionary struggles pushed me towards a more direct way of working. One that could represent people across the world resisting war, repression and state violence.
Further, we were pleased to produce an archival portfolio of 12 silverprints printed and retouched by Kennard Several of these portfolios from 35 years ago are still available.
PETER KENNARD: PHOTOMONTAGES 1973-1991
A Portfolio of 12 Silver Prints
Printed, signed and numbered by the artist in 1991
20 x 24 inches each, Edition of 30
Text by John Berger
Kennard is a polemical artist who has produced an astonishing collection of photomontage images for over 4 decades, unforgiving in their capacity to startle and provoke, unforgettable in their impact. He is a lecturer, photographer, and his work appears regularly in London’s Guardian.
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