Description

Anton Bondarev
Album Cover for «Foreign Rap Hits» by Kasta, 2024

print on paper signed by the band, framed
50 × 50 cm

Artist's Quote:

My fellow musicians from the same city discovered my political satirical works created with neural networks on Instagram. Shym reached out and proposed a collaboration, mentioning they were finishing work on a new album and wondering if I could create a cover in the style of my caricatures. The album cover process stretched over a month-we generated around a thousand variants in three weeks, then carefully selected the foundation for the cover and refined it further: the artists styled as recognizable dictator figures, the background flag rendered in black, militaristic elements added, Soviet attributes like golden wheat sheaves, the band logo, diamond accents, and the album title «Foreign Rap Hits.»

Working on this album represents a kind of milestone for me-I grew up listening to their music in that same beloved, warm southern city, Rostov-Papa.