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		The artist collective General Idea - AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal - forged a unique conceptual practice that deployed parody and irony to critique the artworld and popular media culture.
		Felix Partz (Ronald Gabe) was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1945, and died in 1994.
		Jorge Zontal (Slobodan Saia-Levy) was born in Parma, Italy in 1944, and died in 1994.
	www.eai.org /eai/biography.jsp?artistID=9895 (129 words)

	Musée des beaux-arts du Canada - Le Musée des beaux-arts du Canada célèbre Un jour sans art le ...
		Cette sélection de dessins produits par Jorge Zontal entre 1986 et 1993 se signale par la diversité des sujets : caricatures, masques mortuaires tibétains et images de cancrelats.
		Zontal a passé au sein de General Idea vingt-cinq années au cours desquelles il a dessiné inlassablement sur tout ce qui lui tombait sous la main : serviettes de table, papiers de récupération et livres.
		Jorge Zontal est décédé le 3 février 1994.
	national.gallery.ca /french/default_184.htm (380 words)

	Canada Connect :: Warhol Museum Presents General Idea Editions
		General Idea was formed by Jorge Zontal, Felix Partz and AA Bronson in 1969 in Toronto and came to international attention for their incisive interventions into the media environment of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
		In the height of the AIDS epidemic, the image was disseminated by the group and eventually others on a massive scale, becoming an international logo that instantly and poignantly brought home to the general public a crisis from which many had remained detached.
		In the form of paintings, wallpaper, posters, stamps, and magazine covers, the AIDS logo became the means to counter the silence surrounding the disease which eventually ended the General Idea collaboration when it took the lives of Jorge Zontal and Felix Partz in 1994.
	www.canada-connect.org /default.aspx?id=51 (725 words)

	village voice > news > On Edge by C. Carr
		Zontal, Partz, and AA Bronson began to live and work together in Toronto in 1969, adopted the General Idea tag in 1970, and made a commitment to each other in 1971: They would stay together until 1984.
		Zontal (born Slobodan Saia-Levy) died in February of '94 and Partz (born Ronald Gabe) died that June.
		Zontal wanted to document the fact that he looked as his father had the day he was released from Auschwitz.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0325/carr.php (1246 words)

	Art \| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bronson (who was born Michael Tims) and his collaborators adopted new names and personas as part of their strategy to explore and create media myths and to challenge fixed notions of what was real.
		The scrawled dream fragment touches on many of his recurring themes: the transformative power of decay in nature; the co-existence of decay with rebirth; the significance of dreams and the unconscious in guiding our waking actions; the resilience of the battered body; and a feeling for ritual as a healing act.
		In three huge sepia-toned photographs of Jorge taken about a week before he died, Bronson responds to his friend’s request that he take these pictures to document the similarity between Jorge’s gaunt body and that of Jorge’s father upon his release from Auschwitz almost 50 years earlier.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/arts/art/documents/02176655.htm (1310 words)

	Dublin Tourism - Events in Dublin - General Idea
		General Idea was formed in 1968 by AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal and brought together the formal techniques and theoretical concerns of the artistic vanguard with a glamorous and image based mass popular culture to form a powerful critique.
		A classic work from this period is the appropriation of Robert Indiana's famous Love emblem and its conversion into the AIDS acronym which produced a logo used both as a poster campaign on the subway as well as wallpaper for the gallery.
		The work Fin de Siecle 1990 is constituted from slabs of polystyrene simulating an arctic landscape in which three artificial seals huddle together in the face of extinction, acting as a powerful metaphor for the group itself.
	www.visitdublin.com /visual/events_detail.asp?eventID=2773 (455 words)

	POWER PLANT \| AA BRONSON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Separated in 1995 from his life-and-artworld companions, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal, his co-creators in General Idea, he had to forge a new relationship with ideas and forms of representation to give renewed resonance to his work.
		The process has ultimately renegotiated his perception of dying and the language used to describe death, which has become for him less about destruction than about encouraging an acute awareness of that which is transmuted into a communion with the dead.
		When Jorge died, I had exactly the feeling you are describing.
	www.thepowerplant.org /exhibitions/Winter_03_4/info.htm (608 words)

	National Gallery of Canada - National Gallery of Canada
		This selection of drawings by Jorge Zontal produced between 1986 and 1993 feature a number of different subjects: they portray cartoon characters, Tibetan death masks and images of cockroaches.
		According to AA Bronson, in Zontal's last drawings on pages of a Moore paint sample book, "the fl floaters became a crowd of cockroaches attacking the normality of postwar domestic reality with a war of its own.
		Jorge Zontal died on February 3, 1994, just after his fiftieth birthday.
	www.gallery.ca /english/default_184.htm (354 words)

	National Gallery of Canada - National Gallery of Canada
		This selection of drawings by Jorge Zontal produced between 1986 and 1993 feature a number of different subjects: they portray cartoon characters, Tibetan death masks and images of cockroaches.
		According to AA Bronson, in Zontal's last drawings on pages of a Moore paint sample book, "the fl floaters became a crowd of cockroaches attacking the normality of postwar domestic reality with a war of its own.
		Jorge Zontal died on February 3, 1994, just after his fiftieth birthday.
	national.gallery.ca /english/default_184.htm (354 words)

	Esther Schipper: Past and future exhibitions
		Schnell schon fand das Künstlerkollektiv aus Jorge Zontal, Felix Partz und AA Bronson mit seinen konzeptuellen Arbeiten, Kommentaren zur Medienwelt und seinen Appropriationen der Populärkultur international Beachtung.
		Nur wenige Jahre später, 1994, verstarben Partz und Zontal an den Folgen der Immunschwäche AIDS.
		Formed in 1969 by Jorge Zontal, Felix Partz and AA Bronson in Toronto, General Idea soon came to international attention with their conceptual approaches, interventions into the media environment, and appropriation of popular culture.
	www.artnet.com /Galleries/Exhibitions.asp?gid=164972&cid=103031 (885 words)

	The Harvard Crimson Online :: Print Article
		Along with Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal, Bronson founded the Canadian conceptual art group General Idea.
		Zontal’s father was an Auschwitz concentration camp survivor, and Zontal believed that his gaunt, diseased ravaged body must have resembled his father’s own broken visage on liberation day.
		Bronson “had to act as his mirror in order that he could look ‘normal,’” as Zontal’s blindness in the later stages of disease prohibited his artistic input.
	www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=161702 (947 words)

	PLUG IN ICA - General Idea Editions
		Canada's best-known and internationally renowned collaborative team of artists - General Idea's Jorge Zontal, AA Bronson, and Felix Partz - came to international attention for their incisive interventions in the contemporary media environment.
		The editions provide a glimpse of the development of artist-initiated networks, and they are key to an understanding of General Idea's ironic and critical analysis of the art business, the gallery as a commercial enterprise, and of the role of the media.
		While two of its members -- Jorge Zontal and Felix Partz -- passed away in 1994 due to AIDS-related causes, General Idea's work continues to be acutely relevant for the imaginative formation of alternative communities, articulations of queer identity, and the question of agency in contemporary consumer culture.
	www.plugin.org /2004/generalIdea/index.html (379 words)

	artwave @rogers - Art Gallery of Ontario (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Individually they went by their noms de plume, AA Bronson (Michael Tims), Felix Partz (Ron Gabe) and Jorge Zontal (Jorge Saia).
		The three artists of General Idea joined forces in the 1960s in the counter-culture community of Toronto, combining their diverse talents and brilliant ideas to produce performances, "displays," "environments," film and video works, publishing projects and even their own "zine," FILE Megazine.
		Over the course of their unique 25-year professional and domestic collaboration, Jorge, Felix, and AA produced a powerful body of work, which received international acclaim and changed forever the face of contemporary art practice.
	www.artwave.rogers.com /presents/gallery/ontario/agoinfo/agocur.htm (277 words)

	Artfacts.Net: AA Bronson - Negative Thoughts
		Bronson, along with his partners Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal, formed General Idea (active 1969-1994) in the tradition of other manifesto-established art movements such as Dada, Futurism, and Fluxus.
		When Partz and Zontal contracted the AIDS virus in the 1980s, General Idea turned their focus toward the AIDS crisis.
		Zontal and Partz died from complications due to AIDS in 1994.
	www.artfacts.net /index.php/pageType/exhibitionInfo/exhibition/18581 (290 words)

	Canadian Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As if to emphasize the point, the seals were also presented in soap, a material soon used and gone.
		Perhaps the image looked forward to the deaths of Zontal and Partz from AIDS-related causes in 1994 and the consequent end of General Idea, but the soap figures themselves deliver more smiles than tears.
		This is a joyous show because of GI's wit and plenitude of ideas, and yet it is also a sad one because it is a memorial to something now over.
	www.canadianart.ca /articles/Articles_Details.cfm?Ref_num=212 (785 words)

	frieze (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Billed as a ‘Selected Retrospective’, Project’s exhibition of works by the Canadian trio General Idea (AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal) seemed concerned with looking not only back but also towards a future that never happened.
		The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavilion is a project that’s about the uneasy relationship art has to time and to (art) history, about what form an artistic practice’s spine might take and in which direction it might grow.
		These curatorial selections could be interpreted as a full stop, but the exhibition, like the fictitious venue for the pageant, preferred to conclude on a note of suspense.
	www.frieze.com /review_single.asp?r=2465 (488 words)

	SFMOMA \| Exhibitions \| Disrupture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The artwork combines the video installation with display, presentation, and documentary techniques to elicit a critique of art and consumer culture through a formal device of transfiguration.
		The artists AA Bronson, Felix Partz (1945-1994), and Jorge Zontal (1944-1994) casually formed General Idea in the late sixties in Toronto.
		The house they lived in had the storefront where they first developed what would become a staple in their creative projects: campy appropriations of traditional formal devices, using humor to critique accepted social, cultural, and political constructs.
	www.sfmoma.org /exhibitions/exhib_detail/97_exhib_disrupture.html (566 words)

	MCA Chicago: About Us (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jorge, January 28, 1994 (1999), is a series of three photographs by Bronson of Jorge Zontal a week before his death.
		In addition, they are known for their temporary public artworks which used existing forms of communication and distribution, such as billboards, magazines, subway posters, radio, television, and the internet.
		From 1986 until the deaths of Partz and Zontal in 1994, General Idea turned its focus toward the AIDS crisis, and provided a controversial voice—for its apolitical semiotic approach—among the many artists and artist collectives addressing the subject of AIDS.
	www.mcachicago.org /MCA/About/Press/releases/aa_bronson_and_general_idea.html (763 words)

	Aa Bronson: Negative Thoughts
		Negative Thoughts is AA Bronson's first major project outside of the context of General Idea, the artist collective which he co-founded with Jorge Zontal and Felix Partz.
		From 1986 until the deaths of Zontal and Partz in 1994, General Idea focused on addressing the AIDS crisis.
		The group became known for their temporary public artworks, which used existing forms of communication and distribution, such as billboards, magazines, subway posters, television, and the Internet.
	www.artbook.com /0933856660.html (206 words)

	Art/Museums: The 2002 Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bronson and Partz and Jorge Zontal had been the members of General Idea, a Canada art group.
		Zontal also died from similar causes in 1994 and Bronson then decided to retire the group and move to New York City making art under his own name.
		With its very large scale, bold patterning, asymmetrical composition and the staring eyes of the reclining, robed Partz, this is a stunning work.
	www.thecityreview.com /biennial.html (2781 words)

	Lilian Tone \| General Idea \| Bitter Pills
		In addition to its military and corporate undertones, the name's fundamental contradiction—a particularity defined by a generality—must have appealed to founders Jorge Zontal, Felix Partz, and AA Bronson.
		During twenty-six years of professional and domestic partnership—one of the longest collaborations in twentieth-century art—which ended in 1994, the members of General Idea consistently wove this kind of elusive meaning and literate wit into their resonant body of work.
		With Jorge Zontal's death of AIDS-related causes in 1994, General Idea was prematurely dissolved at a creative peak.
	home.att.net /~artarchives/tonegeneralidea.html (2454 words)

	Canadian Arts & Culture Forum
		The infamous trio, who went by the pseudonyms A.A. Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal, went on to worldwide acclaim and their work is featured in galleries around the world.
		Unfortunately we lost Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal to AIDS, and AA Bronson is doing solo shows; however Bronson is helping to bring Zontal’s final works to the Susan Hobbs Gallery in an exhibition entitled Black Floaters.
		Now Jorge began to transform the bland middle-class interiors depicted there with a thick covering of quickly drawn cockroaches.
	www.compuserve.ca /cpeh/forums/arts/alert20010205.html (671 words)

	SECESSION
		Although a number of editions of the group are being produced up to the present day, AA Bronson has decided to continue his work only as a single artist.
		Felix Partz is shown a few hours after his death and Jorge Zontal a few days before his in large close-ups: a fl box with a life-size picture of himself intimates that a part of AA Bronson also died with his friends.
		He wrote: "Since Jorge and Felix died I have been struggling to find the limits of my own body as an independent organism, as a being outside of General Idea.
	www.secession.at /art/2000_bronson_e.html (592 words)

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		Part of a Toronto-based collaborative art movement called General idea, founded in 1968 by himself, Ronald Gabe and Michael Tims and lasting until his death and that of Gabe in 1994, George Saia took the name of Jorge Zontal.
		Included in their multiples were humorous and sardonic references to modern art.
		After Zontal and Partz died of AIDS, Bronson felt as though he had lost his own identify and produced many works dealing with death, survival and moving on in order to rebuild himself with a new self image.
	www.askart.com /askart/z/jorge_george_saia_zontal/jorge_george_saia_zontal.aspx (440 words)

	Royal Ontario Museum \| About the ROM \| Newsroom \|
		The six-foot lacquered metal sculpture was created in 1989 by AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal of General Idea at a time when few artworks dealt specifically with AIDS.
		Over 25 years, General Idea mounted over 50 temporary public art installations, 123 solo exhibitions and participated in 149 group exhibitions in cities as far as Paris, Sydney, Sao Paulo and Venice.
		Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal died of AIDS-related causes in 1994.
	www.rom.on.ca /news/releases/public.php?mediakey=tgarbgtorn (882 words)

	AA_Bronson
		Bronson is the surviving member of the legendary Canadian conceptual art collective General Idea, and this is his first solo exhibition in New England, since his 25-year collaboration in art and life with Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal was ended when they died of AIDS in 1994.
		General Idea was a unique, influential practitioner of a type of high-camp conceptualism in which performance strategies, punk-rock aesthetics, drag queen bravado, intellectual rigor, and political resistance were blended into an irresistible mélange.
		Bronson, with Partz and Zontal, is among the first internationally recognized contemporary artists to produce artwork in a group structure.
	www.mit.edu /~lvac/exhibitions/WINTER/2002/exhibit.html (831 words)

	The Canada Council for the Arts - Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts Announcement of laureats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Born in Vancouver in 1946, AA Bronson studied architecture at the University of Manitoba and was involved in the counter-cultural movement in the mid-sixties.
		In Toronto in 1969, he formed General Idea with Jorge Zontal and Felix Partz.
		After Zontal and Partz died of AIDS in 1994, AA Bronson went on to work under his own name, exhibiting works that probe the limits of the self.
	www.canadacouncil.ca /news/releases/2002/eg127240271425937500.htm (2289 words)

	Varsity Arts & Culture -- Getting the General Idea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Their activities during their most productive period, 1968-1975 are currently on display at the AGO in an exhibit entitled The Search for the Spirit.
		The search began circa 1968-69 by Ron Gabe, Michael Tims and Jorge Saia, hitherto known as Felix Partz, AA Bronson and Jorge Zontal.
		A project entitled "Manipulating the Self" consisted of a photo of Jorge Zontal with one arm and hand wrapped around his head.
	www.varsity.utoronto.ca:16080 /archives/118/oct14/review/Getting.html (684 words)

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