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A compilation of highlights from Bradley Young's career in the visual arts. The collage includes his new media art from recent years, part of a body of work which generated 14 million video views and 180 million impressions on social in 36 months. Red-letter commissions from Young's time as a visuals director, on-set art director and creative director for media brands including GQ, InStyle, and Interview – where he was also art editor - complete the collection.

The base layers of the nine images below are atrophied variations of the “vampire squid” from the opening frame of Young’s "CO2 World Tour" piece. The graphic overlays eclipsing the squid are a direct reference to elements used by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich in his radical paintings from the early 20th century. Bradley captures the optimism and agency of Kazimir's non-objective work which bookended the Russian Revolution in 1917.* "Geometry and color were all Malevich needed to speak of revolution” The Guardian.

As fossil fuel addicted capitalism appears to be running late to its own funeral and neoliberals be like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ , is a leftist revolution the answer to the climate disaster? “The idea of burning it all down and starting over is intoxicating. However, Stalin; not so much.” Young.

Bradley has created 81 unique variations of the JPGs.

TOM CRUISE

Image by Inez and Vinoodh.

Commissioned for GQ US.

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