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It appears that the Bond Street Art Collective is currently concentrating on portraiture. This new piece materialises like a fragment smuggled out of an alternate art-historical timeline. At once austere and deliriously intricate, the piece navigates the uneasy lineage between early Renaissance perspectival rigour and the ruptures introduced by the Futurists, only to detonate both … Read more

How Dare They? Passing by My G-Wagon with Nary a Glance!

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Digital print In How Dare They? Passing by My G-Wagon with Nary a Glance!, Hedge Fund turns an apparently ordinary urban encounter into a meticulously orchestrated tableau of class geometry and peripheral elegance. A hulking black G-Wagen occupies the left of the frame like a monolith of contemporary aspiration, its matte darkness absorbing light rather … Read more

The Bond Street Art Collective new Drop: Miss X and Kit Marlowe?

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In this striking recent painting, rendered in bold, modern planes of colour, the Bond Street Art Collective invites viewers to consider the layered dialogue between past and present that surrounds a newly surfaced sonnet of uncertain authorship. The poem, reproduced below has been attributed by some scholars to Christopher Marlowe yet by others to Christine … Read more

My Rolls Royce is Amazing: New Art by Hedge Fund

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Digital pigment print on archival substrate Hedge Fund In My Rolls Royce is Amazing Hedge Fund elevates the iconic luxury vehicle into a vision of almost ceremonial extravagance. The car, unmistakably a Rolls-Royce, is rendered in a palette that borders on the delirious: a lacquered magenta body that seems to pulse with synthetic richness and … Read more

Porsche Targa Yes Please! New Hedge Fund Art

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Digital pigment print on archival substrate In Porsche Targa Yes Please! Hedge Fund turns his acute gaze toward one of the most enduring symbols of late modernity: the high-performance sports car as both object and proposition. Rendered in his signature reduction, the Porsche appears less as a vehicle than as a commodity-spectre, its siren-red contours … Read more

Review: Ptolemy Bognor-Regis’s A Monologue in Cadmium Red #3

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By Claribel Daube, Senior Theorist, Pimlico Wilde When one first encounters Ptolemy Bognor-Regis’s A Monologue in Cadmium Red #3, the initial instinct is simply to step back, perhaps to steady oneself. The sheer audacity of the red,if, indeed, “red” is an adequate term,strikes the viewer like a conceptual thunderclap. It is not the red of … Read more

Outside Phonica, Soho: Analysis of a new photograph by Johnny Peckham

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Analysis of a new work by street photographer Johnny Peckham In Outside Phonica, Soho, Johnny Peckham offers us a tableau vivant of urban serendipity , an uncurated congregation at the cultural hinge of sound, style, and suspended time. The photograph’s mise-en-scène, poised on the cusp between motion and idleness, functions as a kind of social … Read more