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Ecce Homo

Creator: Kiki Kogelnik
Offered by: RoGallery

Description
Date: 1980
Screenprint, Signed, Titled and Numbered in Pencil
Edition of 200, AP 35/35
Size: 35 x 24 in. (88.9 x 60.96 cm)
Frame Size: 41.5 x 30.5 inches

about Ecce Homo
The title of this whimsical piece by Kogelnik can really be interpreted in two directions.

The screenprint depicts a woman dressed in a purple suit lifting her sunglasses to look at the silhouette of a person hung over a clothes hanger like a pair of trousers. “Ecce Homo” is Latin and can be translated to mean “Behold the Man” or “Behold a Man”. The first of these alludes to the words used by Pontius Pilate in the Gospel of John when he presented a bound and bloody Jesus to the crowd shortly before his Crucifixion. This meaning is unlikely. More likely, the title refers to the second meaning which is a reference to a disagreement between ancient philosophers Plato and Diogenes. When Plato asserted that man was a featherless biped, Diogenes stood, brandished a bald chicken, and shouted, “Behold—a man”.

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