«Speaking of People» examines the ways in which contemporary artists including Jeremy Okai Davis, Margaret Gallagher, Kerry James Marshall, Lorna Simpson, Martine Syms and Purvis Young are
developing concepts around the influential publications and incorporating their
symbolic imagery in their work.
Beginning in the 1960s, A.R. Penck
developed a signature visual language that combines a rough, unpolished painting technique and all - over composition with primal
imagery and heavily
symbolic content.