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Harland Miller. Love - Saves The Day. 2014. Edition of 100. 15 colour silkscreen print on 410gsm Somerset paper. 57 1/2 x 41 3/4 in. (146 x 105 cm). Special launch price of £2,000 + VAT. To coincide with Valentines Day, White Cube is delighted to announce the launch of a new edition by Harland Miller. In this new silkscreen print by Harland Miller, the artist has reworked a rare design from the archive of Penguin Books; the Russian Review periodical, published in the 1940s. Miller has created a fictional paperback cover using the same design but has changed the colour to a cerise pink. The direct and optimistic statement, 'Love - Saves The Day' is unusual for the artist who frequently employs a dark and satirical turn of phrase to create works that are as unsettling as they are humorous. This cover has been painted in a gestural style which references the colour field paintings of American Abstract Expressionism. Miller says, ‘colour changes the way people read text – if you made the same work in green, people would read the text differently. The same text would have a very different meaning but you would never really know why.’.