Colin Powell

London-based artist Goshka Macuga (b. 1967, Poland) creates works which draw upon singular historical episodes to investigate collective memories and political events. For Busted, the artist presents Colin Powell, a sculpture of the former Secretary of State as he delivers his controversial 2003 speech on weapons of mass destruction at the United Nations. Macuga depicts the scene during his address when he famously held up a vial of anthrax. Rendered in the Cubist style, the sculpture is inspired by the replica of Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, the artist’s iconic anti-war painting which usually hangs in the same room at the UN, but was covered by a curtain during Powell’s speech. For more info, visit art.thehighline.org