DICTATOR POSTAGE STAMPS

DICTATOR POSTAGE STAMPS – Dictator Postage Stamps is the companion to last years Dictator Banknotes a further look at Mott’s fascination with the darkness of power, absolute power in particular. The publication is designed as an album and contains 25 real dictator postage stamps with text for each dictator alongside anecdotes of their barbarity and/or humorous notes on their colourful lives.

Mott’s presentation of these dictators opens a dialogue regarding identification with these flawed individuals and their bygone humanity.
Dictators featured in the publication:
Enver Hoxha, le roi Léopold II, le sultan de Brunei, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Simón Bolivar, Fidel Castro, Mobutu Sese Seko, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Haile Selasse, Napoléon Bonaparte, Philipp Pétain, Adolf Hitler, Gaius Julius Caesar, Sukarno, António de Oliveira Salazar, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Vlad l’Empaleur, Hendrik Verwoerd, Francisco Franco, Bashar Hafez al-Assad, Chiang Kai-Shek, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Joseph Staline, Hugo Chávez, Ho Chi Minh.