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Facade of Identities
This SupremePunk is inspired by CryptoPunk #8236 the work of Mauritz Escher and Joost Swarte. In this work, the facial features of SupremePunk are shaped by the elements of the facade and the internal structure of the buildings: arches, windows, stairwells. Despite their functional purpose, they do not form a unified picture, they do not create the image of a complete building, but rather resemble disparate elements from different buildings, which makes all these elements functionally useless.
De Toneelschuur
A similar feeling is created by seeing the building in Joost Swarte's work "Mystery Theater". Joost Swarte is a Danish cartoonist and graphic designer who is committed to clear line style as an artistic technique. He has also written covers for the Danish magazine Vrij Nederland, the American magazine The New Yorker and others. He has a series of works, Mystery Theatre, which was initiated by the avant-garde theater the Toneelschuur in his hometown of Harlem. He had already collaborated with it, drawing posters and ticket designs. His task was to draw a new theater building so that the city authorities would agree to sponsor its construction, but at the same time to preserve the avant-garde aspirations of the place.
Joost Swarte — Mystery Theater
The artist succeeded, even though in the first sketches the building looked extremely unusual and many of the facade spaces were as featureless as the elements of this building. The author managed to combine the conceptual values of the theater and appeal to the municipal public and investors. One of the notable elements of this Punk are the stairs, which are present only on the lower half of the image, imperceptibly crossing the space. But in art, stairs are not only used for decorative or utilitarian purposes. Stairs also become the center of the work, conveying many semantic subtexts.
Yinka Shonibare — Moving Up
One of the many examples is the work "Moving Up" by Yinka Shonibare, a British artist of African descent. In it he uses a staircase to highlight the problem of identity in postcolonial society, the way in which members of one culture lose it in identification with a foreign culture. This installation shows three characters climbing a ladder - social, economic, geographical - with heavy luggage: bags, suitcases, duffel bags. Instead of heads, they have globes, symbols of globalization processes. The figures are dressed in costumes of the nineteenth century, the period of the apogee of colonial processes.
The artist shows how the process of migration affects the representatives of oppressed cultures, because in today's realities, Western civilization dictates the rules on the world stage. Mimicking Western culture is the only way to succeed in this world.

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