Pointman
A Futura Collection
The Pointman is one of the most recognizable figures created by the artist known as Futura (formally Futura 2000).
Stripped to its essential form, the figure carries no face, no expression, no fixed narrative. Instead it becomes a vessel for ideas: movement, curiosity, vigilance, and endurance. The Pointman stands at the threshold between exploration and uncertainty, a quiet symbol of the individual stepping forward into the unknown.
The term itself comes from the military role of the pointman: the person who moves first into unfamiliar territory. The one who leads. The one who accepts the risk. In Futura’s hands, that idea becomes something universal.
Across paintings, sculptures, and editions, the Pointman appears again and again. Minimal yet unmistakable. A solitary figure navigating an abstract space. It echoes the visual language that runs throughout Futura’s work: futurism, urban energy, scientific notation, and the geometry of motion.
This guide follows the figure across sculptures, vinyl releases, editions and collaborations. Each work stands alone; together they reveal how the Pointman has evolved.
The Pointman is the recurring figure at the centre of this guide. Across more than three decades of work, Futura (b. 1955, New York) has returned to this form again and again -- through painting, sculpture, vinyl, and collaboration. Faceless, forward-facing, stripped of fixed narrative. The figure accumulates meaning through repetition.
Pointman Club is an independent, evolving guide to Futura's Pointman work across sculpture, vinyl, marble, bronze and collaboration.
Each entry focuses on the work itself: title, date, material, dimensions, edition and relationships to other releases. Corrections and additional documentation are welcome.
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