Alec Kronacker, Hotel Miasma, 2011

Bloomberg New Contemporaries Opens at the ICA on Wednesday, 23rd November 2011.

Last year the work that had me swooning and coming over all faint was Alec Kronacker's work. I love this one pictured and Not Ironing. But I think my favourite is Man Pacing Apartment (all 2011). They evoke for me an impersonal cultural nostalgia that you want to get personal with, like a wished for nostalgia, a shot at a subliminal memory of yourself in that scene. They make me yearn for the fresh, new modernist feeling of the 1950s, sitcoms and telephones, clunky analogue and Ektachrome colour. I really want one of these paintings.