Lot 116: Fadi Yazigi (Syrian, b. 1966)

Fadi Yazigi (Syrian, b. 1966)
King Che
signed 'FADI YAZAGI' (lower left)
bronze
35½in. (90cm.) high
Executed in 2008, this work is number one from an edition of eight

Che Guevara (Che), the Argentine Marxist revolutionary, was politician, author, physician, military theorist, and guerrilla leader. After his death, his stylized image became a ubiquitous countercultural symbol worldwide.
Fadi Yazigi is a great admirer of Chs many aspects, but especially of how he had managed to preserve his sense of innocence and commitment to a dream. King Che represents the grown-up man, who yet preserves his childlike innocence. Yazigi, also a dreamer, presents Che as happy and looking up at the sun, an eternal smile cast in bronze.