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                               Drawing economics
                                        
> Mark Lombardi (1951–2000) was an artist whose studio practice involved the
> obsessive tracking of just such mass corporate and political malfeasance.
> Pursuing his stories through various public-domain sources, Lombardi
> created exquisitely geometrical, airily complex pencil drawings that trace
> the connections and chronologies underlying corporate fiascoes like the
> failure of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), the
> looting of the Savings and Loan industry, the internecine duplicity of the
> Banca Nazionale del Lavoro and the Vatican, or the affairs of Bill Clintons
> Arkansas cronies the Lippo Group. Blending pop assumptions with
> conceptualist technique, and approaching the art/life divide as if it were
> a panel of mirrored glass, Lombardi made a practice of updating his
> drawings when new facts in a given story came to light. Were he alive now,
> he would surely be composing a new version of a small work begun in 1999
> called George W. Bush, Harken Energy and Jackson Stephens, c. 1979-90, 5th
> Version (1999).
> 

Via racoon: notes and scavagings [1], “Relatable: Mark Lombardi Draws
Economics [2]”

Very cool art. Who thought one could draw economics?

[1] http://www.imaginaryyear.com/raccoon/2004_01_01_archive.html#1074895674
[2] http://www.nyfa.org/nyfa_quarterly.asp?type=2&qid=4&id=108&

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