Manager of the Year, 1996

About this work:

Manager of the Year and Manager Game (both from 1996), Hunt transmits a critical vision of North American commercial civilisation. Through hundreds of details that accentuate the irony of the whole work, which function as winks towards the conventions of the world of business, he reflects on the false stimuli and rewards that turn economic life into a competition, and transform clichéd images of success (a golf club, a car, a small plane) into what seem to be pieces in a children's game. Nevertheless, the resulting prints, made with consummate care, are pleasant and amusing. Perhaps as a way of defending a hand-crafted approach, in counterpoint to industrial anonymity, Hunt turns each print of his engravings into a one-off piece, because after series printing them, he applies watercolours to each individual example.