The Recycle Group:
from f to futurology

The Recycle Group recently presented the finale to the Royal Academy’s History of Sculpture Course (January to March 2019). Locating their contemporary work within an art-historical context this article connects previous artistic pioneers with these twenty-first-century innovators. Few artists have captured the twenty-first-century consumer zeitgeist with as much curiosity, cynicism, and success as Andrey Blokhin (1987-) and Georgy Kuznetsov (1985-); the duo known as the Recycle Group. From the foundations of their childhood friendship, European cultural family holidays and mutual attendance at the Academy of Industrial Art in Krasnodar, Russia, Recycle Group has offered a sophisticated visual commentary upon modern…