'Untitled I' by Zhao Bo is an oil on canvas measuring 25 × 25 cm, painted in 2004. A close-cropped, magenta-toned face — bald, wide-mouthed, wearing blue-framed glasses — fills almost the entire picture plane against a saturated orange ground. Behind the figure, fragmented urban signage and a blue star motif press into the composition from the corners. Zhao Bo, born in China in 1976, works at the intersection of pop imagery and contemporary Chinese experience. The exaggerated grin and garish palette draw on the visual language of advertising and propaganda without directly quoting either. Zhao has described the contemporary world as populated by 'sly, untruthful, preposterous' figures 'full of malicious symbols' — a framework that gives this gleaming, ambiguous face its unsettling edge.