60 years ago today the world bid farewell to Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin, who died of a stroke aged 74.
The anniversary has been marked by Joe Black, who uses thousands of small items like ball bearings, badges or Lego Bricks to make large scale images.
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And what better item to denote the face of Russian Communism than the chess piece?
40-year-old Black calls himself an ‘image-maker’ rather than an artist, but in doing so probably underplays the precision and skill that goes into his Pop Art-inspired portraits.
His Stalin image, ‘Dangerous Games’, is part of a new exhibition opening at the Opera Gallery in London this week.