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From Siona Wilson’s review for Art Review:

[In “Warhead I”] Brezhnev’s huge eyebrows and plump face are distorted to sinister effect by the chiselled good looks of America’s Hollywood President. With their combined gaze sliding suspiciously off to the right, Burson’s depiction is more film noir than the statistical measurements might suggest. At the other end of the spectrum is “Businessman (10 Businessmen from Goldman Sachs)” (1982). This bland embodiment of the corporate world – blank expression, standard haircut, homogeneous European features – is as affectively empty as “Warhead I” is full. Putting a face to capital, as “Businessman” does, turns out to be just as unsettling for its visual banality as “Warhead I” is for its open menace.

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