Hotel Palace 1989

This is ‘Hotel Palace’ by Boris Bućan, a poster made in 1989. It's got this great tension between the graphic and the painterly – a push and pull between flat shapes and expressive marks. I love how the black kind of bleeds into the pink, creating these smoky, atmospheric effects around the windows. It reminds me that artmaking is always a process of layering, of building up and stripping back. Look closely at the mark making, it’s almost violent. The windows! Those bright, white windows punctuate the darkness, offering a glimpse of something beyond. They really remind me of those architectural landscapes by Charles Burchfield, where buildings become these haunted, anthropomorphic figures. But Bućan's poster also feels totally contemporary, like a deconstructed billboard or a glitch in the matrix. It embraces ambiguity, inviting us to bring our own stories and interpretations to the table.