Knight Bachelor is a digital portrait of French artist Marcel Duchamp, a part of Nick Fudge's Picasso Pizazz collection. Fudge has incorporated Duchampian solutions (to the problem of representation) of skepticism, humor, and irony into his depiction of Duchamp. The work is informed by Fudge's expert understanding of the complex and cryptic oeuvre, with its explorations of esoteric concepts such as the bachelor machine (represented in his The Large Glass) and the infra-slim (a term used to describe incommensurable differences in entangled phenomena), etc.; using digital techniques, Duchamp is portrayed as a bachelor of an infra-slim art. Fudge's digital rendition expresses aspects of Duchamp's unique poetics and philosophical investigations, presenting a modern technological interpretation that extends Duchamp's investigations into digital spaces.

In Picasso Pizazz collection, the contexts of modernism and postmodernism are introduced through the genre of portraiture, weaving them into our current metamodern discourse on the art of the past in relation to a seemingly technologically determined future. This approach serves to recontextualize the impact of machines on modernist art and values. The collection focuses on two of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, Picasso and Duchamp, who had markedly different responses to the machine. The collection not only revisits the motifs and stylistic innovations of its subjects but also integrates modern digital techniques to reimagine their legacies in the context of today's technological advancements. Dive deeper into Picasso Pizazz and Nick Fudge's artistic practice with our exclusive interview.