Monthly Archive: December 2008

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

Ilya & Emilia Kabakov (Rabbits)

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Figure 29: Little Rabbits

Limited edition offset prints, unframed
Signed and numbered in pencil from an edition of 50, 1993 – 1994
32cm x 44cm

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

THE ARTISTS ON THEIR WORK

“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.

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Ilya & Emilia Kabakov (Ships)

[Untitled, Ships]

Limited edition offset prints, unframed
Signed and numbered in pencil from an edition of 50, 1993 – 1994
29cm x 40cm

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

ACCORDING TO 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

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Svetlana Boym

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Dimitri Kozyrev

Cutting Edge #1 (2007)

Original drawing, paper and pencil, unframed, 23” x 29”

ON HIS WORK

“Dimitri Kozyrev’s various bodies of work can be described as an attempt to understand and manage change. To capture it. Hold or compress change into a single visual moment so it can be remembered.”

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Dimitri Kozyrev was born in Leningrad, USSR and moved to the United States in 1991. Kozyrev received his MFA from University of California, Santa Barbara in 2000, and his BFA from Ohio University in 1997. Since then, Kozyrev has had multiple solo shows in Los Angeles, New

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Yevgeniy Fiks

Communist Tour of MoMA (An Introduction) (2010)

Mixed-media collage on paper, 14” x 17”, unframed
Edition of 16. Signed and dated on recto “06”

ARTIST’S PROJECT STATEMENT:

“For the past fifty years, the Museum of Modern Art has been separating artists from their politics and in so doing sanitizing the history of Modern Art. Communist Tour of MoMA connects the history of Modern Art to the history of the 20th-century Communist movement. The project is based on research conducted at the Museum of Modern Art archives in New York, focusing on Modern artists from the MoMA collection whose careers overlapped

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