Kadan looks incredibly Ukrainian and of the ‘intellectual avante garde’ …. – like a caricature of what he stands for…!

He started his talk and presentation with his drawn images of police brutality – people being tortured and raped…  so we quickly got the idea of where he was coming from…

It was a powerful body of work. I found it very moving – it UPSET me a lot – which says something.

Apart from his choice of subject matter – a contentious, powerful, emotive agenda what I found interesting in the form of his work was his use of huge scales. He makes sculpture on a monumental scale – it’s as if he’s shouting everything – because he is passionate about what he’s saying.

For my own practice what I will take away is captured in the notes bottom right of the sketch book page attached – especially I will take away the impact of working BIG – and not letting my concerns about ‘but how would I construct that?’ to dictate limits to my creative vision.

A guide to his 2019 exhibition in Vienna MUMOK describes his work as ‘exploring current social and political developments in Ukraine and their foundations in Soviet communism. In his installations, objects, and pictures he shows the extent to which the emancipatory side of the communist avant-garde has been repressed today’