The Modern Window: Julien Ceccaldi

Influenced by underground comix, 1990s anime, and shōjo manga, Julien Ceccaldi’s fantastic compositions capture the discomfort, melodrama, and romance of contemporary social life. City streets, skyrise apartments, steam rooms, cocktail lounges, and sidewalk cafés provide the settings for many of the stories that unfold across his drawings, paintings, and self-published comics, lending his work the contours of realism. For this commission, Ceccaldi was inspired by street scenes in modernist paintings from MoMA’s collection. His playfully skewed, life-size geometries reference United Production…