Cries and Whispers for Gandhi

Work on Paper

DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2019.15

Description

Collage type work with two matching sections on the top and bottom of a red background with blue swirly lines. Middle section has large multicolored circles next to a square image in yellow of a figure. A white cross shape is at the bottom and a white bird photo is at the top.

Artwork Details

Medium

Shaped hand-made paper base with blowout stencil pulp painting with chine colle screen print and color photography

Context

Cries and Whispers for Gandhi is part of a series of works that depicts the bodies or corpses of political martyrs, including Ché Guevara, Malcolm X, and Puerto Rican nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos. Sánchez foregrounds an photo of Gandhi in a collage of imagery- a dove of peace, celestial orbs, and fluid lines and circles. While the dove anchors the top of the composition the bottom features a sharp, thin white grid that also resembles crosshairs and possibly alludes to Gandhi’s assassination. Though this series Sánchez is outspoken about preserving the memories and resilient spirits of political icons who were killed for their beliefs, asserting art’s potential to chronicle history.

Acquisition

Accession

2019.15

Source or Donor

Spencer Weber Waller, Laura Matalon

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of Spencer Weber Waller and Laura Matalon

Made/Created

Artist

Juan Sánchez

Date made

2003

Ethnography

Notes

American

Edition

Edition Size

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

political concepts, social science concepts

Hierarchy Name

Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)

Facet

Associated Concepts Facet

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Political activists, Political murders

Dimensions

Dimension Notes

(framed) 46.125 in. x 25.5 in. x 2 in.

Dimension Notes

117.15 cm. x 64.77 cm. x 5.08 cm.