NYC Street Poets and Visionaries delete The title Padanistan deliberately hijacks

The title Padanistan deliberately hijacks the nationalistic rhetoric found within Padanian politics

Léa Seydoux

Disarming Design

" reflecting a desire for unembellished and free expression

alongside several watercolours and a suite of new etchings

NYC Street Poets and Visionaries delete The title Padanistan deliberately hijacksBetween the late 1980s and 2020, from the end of the Reagan era to the beginning of the of the coronavirus, the artist Kenneth Goldsmith collected in the streets of New York hundreds of classified ads and other advertising posters. Hilarious, offbeat, absurd, even downright outrageous, sometimes breathtakingly beautiful, they all have in common their unpredictability as much as their total lack of utility. Borrowing either their codes to art brut,