First free exhibit, Târgoviște, Romania, December 1989
First free exhibit, Târgoviște, Romania, December 1989
Attempting a description:
Looks like a small comic public exhibit in Târgoviște, according to Azopan
The comics go the following (as far as they're legible):
- First row, leftmost: Ox cart - a reference to the painting of Nicolae Grigorescu bearing the same name, but probably with Nicolae Ceaușescu heading it and probably other political leaders. Ox is also used as a swear in Romanian, synonimous with stupid.
- First row, second pic: Christmas carolers, probably next to the grave of Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, Elena. The one on the right gives them the popular greeting, "And the next year when we return, we shall find you the same".
- Second row, first pic, partially visible: Looks like Ceaușescu with a smoking gun in his hand. The writing says "Un pretendent la premiul Nobel pentru pace" ("A pretender for the Nobel Peace Prize") - where the smoke surrounds the letters PAC from "Pace" (meaning "Bang" in this context).
- Second row, second pic: The name of the exhibit.
- Right bottom pic: A drawing of a pork knuckle, titled "Ceaushistic graph". The meatless part of the knuckle is marked as "the people". The pork knuckle is also colloquially used to describe the process of acceding to power, but could be also interpreted as an allusion to the food shortages that plagued the 1980s.