In City by Dusk, Bangdel reimagines the urban landscape as a vibrant constellation of fragmented forms. Clusters of ochre, green, red, blue, and black suggest buildings compressed within the fading light of evening, while angular lines create a sense of movement and restless energy.
Rather than describing a specific city, Bangdel captures the atmosphere of urban life— dense, shifting, and animated. Painted during a pivotal period in his development, the work demonstrates his increasing movement toward abstraction while preserving traces of recognizable architecture. The city emerges as both a physical environment and a remembered experience, suspended between structure and dissolution, daylight and darkness.