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Monthly Archive: December 2008

ARTMargins Online: Exhibition Reviews

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 by Sven Spieker ·

Dreams Behind Bars: Miami’s “Russian Show”

Russian Dreams, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, December 4, 2008 – February 8, 2009.

Russian Dreams presents work by contemporary artists from Russia. On view at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami from December 4, 2008 to February 8, 2009, the exhibition is a collaboration between the Bass and the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow. It includes work by established artists such as the AES+F Group; Alexander Ponomarev; Vladimir Dubossarsky and Alexander Vinogradov; Dmitri Gutov; Alexei Kostroma; and a new generation of younger artists including Julia Milner, Rostan Tavasiev, Haim Sokol, and MishMash Project. The first group came to prominence … Read more

Artist Editions

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Ilya & Emilia Kabakov

Limited edition offset prints, unframed
Signed and numbered in pencil, 1993 – 1994

(The Cyrillic text behind the image reads “IDI NA KHUI” roughly translated as “GO FUCK YOURSELF”)

Background information by the artists:

“The prints were initially created to be part of another of our albums. A father decides to buy a coloring book as a present for his son. He goes to a store, buys the book and brings it home. The mother opens the package and suddenly she discovers that there are ‘bad words’ behind every drawing. ‘What is this?’ she asks. ‘Obviously someone is trying … Read more

Artist Editions

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Svetlana Boym

 Hand-Made Photographic Prints

The artist describes the production process:

“I pulled each picture manually out of the printer, its loud protestations notwithstanding. The rhythm of withdrawal is unrepeatable and so is each print. This procedure goes against both the printer’s instruction manual and the mass reproduction of the photographic images.” (Svetlana Boym)

C-Prints, 22″ x 17″, Signed and titled on verso.

Prices: $1200 each

 

     

Artist Editions

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Dimitri Kozyrev

Original Drawing by Dimitry Kozyrev

Dimitry Kozyrev, "Cutting Edge #1" (23 by 29 inches, paper, pencil, 2007).

Dimitri Kozyrev is represented by the Mark Moore Gallery (Los Angeles).

See his site: www.dimitrikozyrev.com

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2009 Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  • 2006 Space/Vision/ Perception, Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Largo, FL
  • 2005 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2004 Scope Art Fair, New York, NY
  • 2004 Journeys II, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2003 Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, IL
  • 2003 Drawings, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2002 Journeys I, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2001 Lost Landscapes, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa
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Artist Editions

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Yevgeniy Fiks

Signed Original Collage by Yevgeniy Fiks

Communist Tour of MoMA (An Introduction) (2010). Signed.
Collage on paper. Edition of 18.

See www.yevgeniyfiks.com

Yevgeniy Fiks was born in Moscow in 1972 and has been living and working in New York since 1994. Fiks has produced many projects on the subject of the Post-Soviet dialog in the West, among them: “Lenin for Your Library?” in which he mailed V.I. Lenin’s text “Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism” to one hundred global corporations as a donation for their corporate libraries; “Communist Party USA,” a series of portraits of current members of Communist Party … Read more