The Human Rights
Ten panels, 100x120 cm, 2006
Acryl on canvas
«Years ago Renato Jordan drew the Latin text of the Story of Creation on seven boards/panels. A similar work of art was to be created later with the Ten Commandments from the Book of Moses. Renato Jordan, however, decided to represent a reliable form of laws. The Declaration of Human Rights offered itself as the best solution - laws and rules written by human beings for human beings and declared reliable by the whole world. The number ten was taken over as a connection with the Bible, but at the same time as a symbol of the perfection and the isolation of the Human Rights. The vulnerability but also the reliability of these elementary rights should be shown on the boards/panels. Ten boards/panels were created, where two texts overlapped. On the lower parts there are the names of all the states that signed the declaration. On the space above, above the names of the states that is, the entire text of the Declaration of Human Rights is written in bright grey letters exactly shared out on the ten boards/panels. At first sight a sort of lined pattern is visible. Each line in this apparent pattern, however, is part of a letter. There is not one single brushstroke which is not part of a letter. » (July 2006)