Pimlico Wilde Contemporary Art
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Digital pigment print on archival substrate With I Usually Park Behind the Royal Academy, Hedge Fund continues his celebrated exploration of aspiration as public performance. At first glance, the work appears to document a fleeting London street scene: a red Porsche resting quietly against a backdrop of Georgian façades while pedestrians pursue the reassuring banality of … Read more
Digital print In Lady Venetia Cashmere, After the Third Martini, Hedge Fund delivers one of his most psychologically mischievous portraits to date. The composition is cropped with almost indecent intimacy, forcing the viewer into proximity with a smile that is equal parts triumph and calculation. Her electric blue eyeshadow spreads like a financial horizon, confident … Read more
It is rare in the history of art to encounter a figure who unites society, commerce, and culture with the effortless ease of Hedge Fund. Trained not in an atelier but in the world of high finance, Hedge Fund brings to digital portraiture an acumen that is as much Wall Street as it is Warhol. … Read more
Not For Sale In Wheel of Fortune (Quarterly Results Pending) Hedge Fund reduces the luxury automobile to its most hypnotic fragment. The wheel, isolated and enlarged, becomes a circular diagram of velocity, value, and repetition. Rendered in saturated yellows against a field of electric blue and absolute black, the image oscillates between mechanical precision and … Read more
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
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
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
The third instalment of Hedge Fund’s Portraits of the Very Rich series has opened not in a gallery, but on the trading floor of the Madeira Stock Exchange; a curatorial gesture that borders on the sublime. To see twelve monumental digital prints of the ultra-wealthy staring down from marble walls once reserved for the movement … Read more
I was offered full funding for the pure gold, life-size, model Brighton Pier project! Excellent. The money was put up by an anonymous ambassador who refused to say the name of his country (which sounded vaguely exotic and suspiciously vague). He claimed his country was “looking to increase tourism and global cultural presence and sponsoring … Read more
A call to artistic arms by Hedge Fund Dear Esteemed Patron of the Arts, I hope this artistic plea finds you in good health, strong liquidity, and the kind of visionary mood required for what I am about to propose. You know of, I am sure and probably own one or more of my vibrant … Read more