Love, Peace, Terror is an original hand-signed artwork by Dutch artist Dadara, born Daniël Rozenberg, dating from 1998.
The work measures approximately 26 × 28 cm / 10.2 × 11 in and is presented in an acrylic frame with a border of approximately 2 cm / 0.8 in on each side, giving overall framed dimensions of approximately 30 × 32 cm / 11.8 × 12.6 in.
Created in 1998, the work dates from an important early stage in Dadara’s artistic development. After graduating from the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam in 1992, Dadara became closely connected to the Dutch electronic-music and underground scene, creating flyers, record sleeves, paintings, and visual identities while simultaneously developing an independent fine-art practice.
His work from this period combines bold graphic imagery with surrealism, humor, and social criticism. Themes including money, freedom, conformity, politics, identity, dreams, and the tensions of contemporary society became recurring elements throughout his career.
The title Love, Peace, Terror brings together three opposing concepts: idealism, harmony, and violence. Although a documented interpretation of this specific 1998 work could not be located, the juxtaposition is consistent with Dadara’s wider practice of using apparently playful or direct imagery to introduce contradictions and provoke reflection.
The title also predates Dadara’s later Love, Peace and Terror project of 2007, which centered on a large pink military tank constructed on a rooftop in Amsterdam and ultimately destroyed as part of what the artist described as an act of visual aesthetic terrorism. The later project demonstrates that the relationship between peace, violence, symbolism, and social contradiction remained an important theme in Dadara’s work.
As an original, hand-signed work from 1998, Love, Peace, Terror offers an early example of ideas that would continue to appear throughout Dadara’s later paintings, installations, performances, and public projects.
A strong original work for collectors of Dadara, Dutch contemporary art, Amsterdam underground culture, 1990s visual culture, socially engaged art, and early works by the artist.
