On the Use of the Avant-Garde as a Design Language

"That Martin Beck’s 2008–09 exhibition title ‘Panel 2—“Nothing better than a touch of ecology and catastrophe to unite the social classes …”’ quotes Jean Baudrillard’s reproach is characteristic of the artist, whose sculpture, painting, video and writing works pinpoint the fraught ideological stakes of historical discourses on art, design and architecture, among other disciplines. Recycling modern movements, Beck hollows them out, so to speak."