Che 'No !' Variation
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Che 'No !' Variation Print

Year: 1997
Run Size: 100
Part of Set: none
Size: 18x24
Paper: unknown
Print Type: Screen Print
Release Date:


This is a variation of the standard Che print. It is numbered out of 100 and assumed to be from the same initial run(run size information is for the entire Che run from 1997). Only one Che without exclamation marks is known to exist at this time.

From Supply and Demand, pg. 95:
The Che Guevara photo, taken by Alberto Korda in 1960, is probably the most clichéd image of rebellion worldwide. I stole it not so much to endorse what Che was about or what he did, but to demonstrate that symbols become easy to manipulate after they have a life beyond their real history. I see lots of kids with Che t-shirts who probably know nothing about him besides his rebel status. I tried to capture some of the essence of the original Che photograph, but it’s clearly not Che’s face – it’s Andre the Giant’s face. After this picture sat in the window of a San Diego art gallery for three months, a clerk across the street pointed at my Andre icon face t-shirt and exclaimed, “Che Guevara! I too am a fan of Che Guevara.” It just shows how people’s memory can be reconditioned through imagery.


Related Prints: Che - Che Reissue