Anna Schwartz’s Melbourne gallery has an intriguing exhibition of work by a North Korean artist – Kim Guang Nan. The exhibition is titled ‘The Future is Bright’. The works are linocut on high gloss paper. Curiously (or perhaps intentionally) the works are based in other worlds – deep sea or outer space. They have a comic book element, akin to the cartoon ‘The Jetsons’. The sophisticated composition shows a highly sanitised, idealised world view, reminiscent of 19050s propaganda art of China (i.e., the heroic worker image).
