Alex Israel: Self-Portrait (Blue Face) Maya Ruiz-Picasso The poster depicts a ballpoint

The poster depicts a ballpoint pen in a diagrammatic visual language that brings to mind the deceptive simplicity of early Roy Lichtenstein or the mechanical drawings appropriated by the Dadaists

Essays by Yve-Alain Bois and Ben Eastham consider the symbolism and correspondences of the series

Traces remain of the idiosyncrasies of the original model furniture

Included in the exhibition

which were conceived as a single coherent group and displayed for the first time at the Venice Biennale in 2007

Alex Israel: Self-Portrait (Blue Face) Maya Ruiz-Picasso The poster depicts a ballpointIn Self Portrait (Blue Face) (2017), a print produced by Mixografia, Alex Israel depicts his own sunglasses clad face in profile, replacing his features with smoothly gradated color fields. Editioned in six different color combinations, Self Portrait features a white outline of the artists head in raised relief with a hollow, contoured interior. Making use of a 1980s style palette that juxtaposes neon and pastel hues, Israel evokes the distinctive