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In the Chinese art world of the 1980s and early 1990s, Zhao Bandi first gained fame as a realist painter, known for complex and virtuosic canvases drawing inspiration from the art-historical canon he revered. Rigid in composition and measured in brushstroke, these paintings often depict quotidian scenes with a narrative undertone, probing the existential and spiritual condition of ordinary people steeped in a specific moment.

43-35 10th Street

”In a profoundly strong and varied list of international artists, the quality and consistency of Daniel Shea’s subjective visual idiom, greatly impressed the jury.
Using a variety of visual mediums, Shea’s work explores the complexity and ambiguities of urban development in his home city, New York. Drawing from his experience as a commercial photographer, Shea presents us with a seductive and disconcerting world of concrete, steel and glass, which traverses the boundaries of fact and fiction.
His latest body of work ‘43-35 10th Street’, allows us to reflect on late capitalism and its effects on a changing city landscape.”

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A bright new tome from Phaidon explores the pleasingly kitsch and arguably pertinent role product design played in the history of the USSR. “According to this view,” design writer Justin McGuirk notes in the book’s foreword, “the tedium of Soviet consumer goods was a fatal flaw in the [state’s] system, grinding down morale and stoking the desires of the Russian citizen for blue jeans and other trappings of American-style consumerism”. But Phaidon’s compilation of over 350 examples of product and graphic design from Moscow Design Museum’s unique collection posits this distrust of Soviet product design as questionable. While numerous accounts from that time denote a sort of desperation for the consumer goods of the west, McGuirk highlights the despondency of many other Soviet citizens, bewildered by having thrown away a noble social experiment. “The choice,” he writes, “is framed as that between a great country and a normal one. Normality won.”

Anna Roberts - Oranges

a blowout trip

Franco Vaccari

Cy Twombly

No. V

Jacob Burge

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