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Tag: Nunzio Madden

Victoria Perin

Editorial: a surplus of enthusiasm

While I am admittedly prone to hyperbole, I do think editing un Extended in 2025-26 could have been the best job I’ve ever had. I asked a dozen authors to entertain and inform readers, while writing about art and artists that I personally wanted to know about. And they did it! The power went to […]

Amelia Winter

Nunzio Madden’s bodies in trouble

For the past three years, Nunzio Madden’s paintings have played host to one character and one character only. Musclebound and jaundiced, it is a plain anatomy of disquieting features: its head, bald as an egg and tiny relative to its hypermasculine, double-linebacker shoulders, hangs expressionless above a Ken-smooth crotch. Madden’s recent exhibition at KINGS, titled […]

Alice Watson

Nunzio Madden: Bush Doof

Artist: Nunzio Madden Curator: Olivia Koh Nunzio Madden’s video work, Bush Doof (2019) begins with a voicemail. The call contains the details of an accident – a child has fallen off the back of a tractor driven by their dad. The caller, the dad, is ringing to apologise and tells the artist, the child who […]