Polygonal Cities Index | Richard Horvath Artworks
Polygonal City 17
2009
Inkjet on watercolour paper
70 x 52 cms
A photo taken in Bandra, a superficially smart suburb favoured by the Bollywood crowd in Mumbai was the original source for this print. All that remains are the seated man and the mannequins in the window display which in real life impressively took up several storeys of busy street frontage. Ultimately the final result is flavoured more by airport photos I took on that vacation and the theme of the mall which has been touched on in other works of this series.
The generically bland seating and gaudily patterned carpet have the anodyne qualities of the airport aesthetic and the neutral tones of the tiling representative of the mall. The Irony clothing brand actually exists and is not an example of heavy-handed wit on my part but a fatuous expression of the fashion industry.
The cartoonish pedestrians came from the web and my initial response after downloading to these low polygon stereotypes was to delete them but the thought of injecting a sense of low key humour into an otherwise dry scene was compelling despite concerns of stylistic inconsistency. It is unlikely that you will ever find a striding 1930's Soviet heroic worker in a plasticky blue shirt in your local shopping centre.
The generically bland seating and gaudily patterned carpet have the anodyne qualities of the airport aesthetic and the neutral tones of the tiling representative of the mall. The Irony clothing brand actually exists and is not an example of heavy-handed wit on my part but a fatuous expression of the fashion industry.
The cartoonish pedestrians came from the web and my initial response after downloading to these low polygon stereotypes was to delete them but the thought of injecting a sense of low key humour into an otherwise dry scene was compelling despite concerns of stylistic inconsistency. It is unlikely that you will ever find a striding 1930's Soviet heroic worker in a plasticky blue shirt in your local shopping centre.