Curatorial Narrative The anonymous artist’s “Exhibition on How to Save Fuel” sits awkwardly within the broader narrative of Mid-Century Modernism, its creation date shrouded in mystery. The work’s reliance on architectural subject matter and industrial design sensibilities would have been more at home in the 1950s or 60s, yet it appears to eschew the era’s characteristic optimism for a more austere, detached tone. In this context, the artist’s decision to eschew brushwork and instead employ a graphic, two-dimensional approach serves to underscore the work’s didactic, instructional intent. The palette, dominated by oranges and blues, takes on a stark, industrial quality that is at once both jarring and thought-provoking. When scaled up to 145×44 inches, the chromatic structure becomes increasingly weighty, with the orange hues exerting a kind of visual gravity that draws the viewer’s eye inexorably towards the work’s core. The spat