![]() ![]() The fact that Wyn Evans’s image can only be seen in the dark may be regarded as a reference to the secret planning and clandestine military operations undertaken by the unit. The Durruti Column was a military unit of around six thousand anarchists led by the Spanish revolutionary José Buenaventura Durrutti that fought against General Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39). The comic was originally produced by the avant-garde group known as the Situationists – members of which often emphasised the value of the ‘drift’ or unplanned journey mentioned by one of the men on horseback in this work – but Wyn Evans found the image in a 1966 reproduction of the comic published by students in Strasbourg, France (see Richard Wolin, The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s, Princeton 2010, p.76). The image used in this work was adapted by Wyn Evans from a comic strip entitled The Return of the Durutti Column, which featured French dialogue (translated by Wyn Evans for his print) added to a film poster. This print was made by the Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans in London in 1997. While the two figures and their horses are mainly depicted in black, the rest of the image is printed in luminous green ink that can only be seen in the dark. The man on the right continues, ‘Yeah? I guess that means pretty hard work with big books and piles of paper on a big table’, and his counterpart responds: ‘Nope. The figure on the right asks, ‘What’s your scene, man?’ to which the figure on the left replies: ‘Reification’. ![]() Cartoon-like speech bubbles drawn onto the image outline a short conversation between them. The men are depicted frontally wearing cowboy hats and staring into the distance. The Return of the Return of the Durutti Column 1997 is a screenprint on white wove paper that features an image of two men on horseback in starkly contrasting tones of black and green ink. ![]()
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