DAVID DIAO 刁德谦 El Lissitzky / Herman Miller 2017 Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas 152*114cm DD_1523

Known for his keen ability to translate content as form, New York School abstract painter David Diao's minimal compositions, which often incorporate stylized text, are both tributes to and wry interrogations of his ancestry, and legacy. In El Lissitzky / Herman Miller (2017), Diao brings the classic curves from Proun P23, No. 6 (1919) by Russian avant-garde artist El Lissitzky and the logo of the famous furniture manufacturer Herman Miller together.