Throughout its 25-year-long career, prominent Canadian artists’ group General Idea—formed in 1969 by AA Bronson (b. Michael Tims, 1946), Felix Partz (b. Ronald Gabe, 1945-1994) and Jorge Zontal (b. Slobodan Saia-Levi, 1944-1994)—produced an important body of work in various media and formats, which continues to be a reference point for generations of artists around the world.

Great AIDS (Cadmium Red Medium) is part of a new series of AIDS paintings conceived by the group in 1990, but only executed by AA Bronson in 2019, 25 years after the death of Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal from AIDS-related causes.

The AIDS logo appears mirrored along the canvas’s horizontal and vertical axes. The work consists of 4 canvases, exhibited together as a one square painting.