With a series of works with “teased” flags – such as the iconic Sex Pistols, God Save the Queen 1977, by Jamie Reid – the Onassis Foundation was positioned against the “taking down” of Georgia Lalet’s pink flag from the New York consulate.

The Onassis Foundation first presents Lale’s work, Flag, and then:

– William N. Copley. Untitled (Think/flag) 1967

– Jamie Reid. Sex Pistols, God Save the Queen 1977. One of the most iconic punk icons of all time. It topped the list of 100 Best Album Covers Since 2001. Jamie Reid’s artwork graces the cover of Sex Pistols’ ‘God Save The Queen’ album. It was designed in 1977 during the heyday of the punk music scene and Queen’s silver jubilee year.

– Jasper Johns. Flag. The artist in question has falsified the US flag in several of his works. One of his most iconic works is the 1969 Flag (Moratorium), an original lithograph, which became an integral part of the anti-Vietnam war movement. The project symbolizes the horrors of war by changing the colors of the flag to green and black, colors that refer to the military camouflage of the US Army. In the center is a single white bullet hole.

– Beetroot 2023. A sketch for her tragedy of Tempe with the deadly collision of the trains, The white lines of the Greek flag are shown as derailed wagons.

-David Hammons. African American Flag 1990. The United States flag is falsified in this work. Its colors are replaced by the red, green and black of the Pan-African League, founded in 1914. Hammons first devised the African-American flag for the Black USA exhibit at the Overholland Museum in Amsterdam in the spring of 1990.

– Banksy. Slave Labor 2012. This is a mural by the famous street artist. The artwork depicts a child at a sewing machine making British flags. The project was a protest against the use of sweatshops to manufacture souvenirs to commemorate the ‘Diamond Jubilee’ and the 2012 London Olympics

-Nari Ward. Breathing Flag 2017. The work is on display at the Queens Museum and references Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) flag and an African prayer symbol known as the Congolese Cosmogram, which represents birth, life, death and rebirth.

– Pavlos Dionyssopoulos. Greek Flag 2007. His work, which has been in the collection of the European Parliament since 2008 after a donation from the then mayor of Athens Nikitas Kaklamanis, shows the Greek flag, but also the flags of the other EU member states, covered with paper strips like a confetti.

he confetti, as stated on the official page of the European Parliament, essentially creates a filter that covers the national symbol and makes it almost unrecognizable. In this way, the artist questions the symbols in question by uniting them with the common motif. Each of them is unique, yet all are part of a common system.

– Sara Rahbar. Flag #17/unstable, you disappear in the distance 2008.