David Diao, Black and White with Chair, 1984

Top: Black and White with Chair, 1984–88 Bottom: Glissement, 1984 Artist: David Diao (born 1943 in Chengdu, China; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas;213 x 274 cm (Black and White with Chair) Acrylic on canvas; 178 x 254 cm (Glissement) Description: “Based on a renowned […]
Chto Delat, Untitled (Tatlin’s Tower), 2013

Artist: Chto Delat [What Is to Be Done?] [Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Nina Gasteva, Artiom Magun, Nikolay Oleynikov, Natalia Pershina/Glucklya, Alexey Penzin, David Riff, Alexander Skidan, Oxana Timofeeva, Dmitry Vilensky] (collective founded in 2003 in St. Petersburg, Russia). Materials: Description: “The quotation [of Tatlin’s Monument] created by Chto Delat, a Russian collective of artists, critics, and philosophers, […]
Ângela Ferreira, Talk Tower for Forough Farrokhzad, 2020

Artist: Ângela Ferreira (born 1958, Maputo, Mozambique; lives and works in Lisbon). Description: Sculpture in PVC, iron, aluminium, electric installation, amplifier and megaphones; 285 x 175 x 105 cm 12 drawings: Graphite on fabriano paper; print; 21 x 29 cm Sound: Forough Farrokhzad – Tavalodi Digar; 4:17; loop “Talk Tower for Forough Farrokhzad (2020) was designed […]
Ian Kiaer, Melnikov Project, 2011

Artist: Ian Kiaer (born 1971, London, lives and works in London) Description: Installation of paintings and sculpture. One sculpture is a model of Melnikov’s Cylindrical House Studio (1929), an architectural design for a house in which Melnikov lived and worked. “Kiaer’s exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum, his first one-person presentation in the United States, […]
Alexandra Pirici and Manuel Pelmus, Public Collection, 2014

Artists: Alexandra Pirici (born Bucharest, 1982, lives and works in Berlin) and Manuel Pelmus (born 1974, lives and works in Oslo and Bucharest) Description: Public Collection is a continuous performance in an exhibition context, performed by 3 or 4 dancers, that proposes the idea of an immaterial collection of modern art. Illustrated above: installation at […]
Kostis Velonis, Reconstruction of the Model of Tatlin’s Monument to the III International as an Instrument of Research for Domesticity, 2009

Artist: Kostis Velonis (born 1968; lives and works in Athens, Greece). Materials: Wood, acrylic, veneer, plywood, and paint spray Description: “[Kostis Velonis’s] sculptures and works on paper are an interestingly uneasy combination of two strains of recent art: the ‘Unmonumental’ school of haphazard, jerry-built, intuitively free-associative assemblage on the one hand; and a more concept-driven […]
Kostis Velonis, Gaining Socialism while Losing your Wife (after Popova’s set construction for “Le Cocu magnifique,” 1922), 2009

Artist: Kostis Velonis (born 1968; lives and works in Athens, Greece). Materials: Mixed media installation. Description: “The stage-like element in his works is given direct expression in the sculpture Gaining Socialism while Losing your Wife. It goes back to Lyubov Popova’s stage set for the 1921 play ‘Le Cocu magnifique’ by the Belgian playwright Fernand Crommelynck, […]
Lucy McKenzie and Paulina Olowska, Nova Popularna, 2004

Artist: Lucy McKenzie (born 1977 in Glasgow, Scotland; lives and works in Brussels, Belgium) and Paulina Olowska (born 1976 in Gdansk, Poland; lives and works in Rabka Zdroj and Krakow, Poland). Description: “In May 2003 McKenzie and Olowska temporarily ran an underground bar called Nova Popularna in Warsaw, Poland, and held concerts and performances there […]
Anatoly Osmolovsky, A Voyage of Netsezudik to Brobdingnag (Mayakovsky—Osmolovsky), 1993/2011

Artist: Anatoly Osmolovsky (born 1969 in Moscow, USSR; lives and works in Moscow). Description: “Osmolovsky’s A Voyage of Netsezudik to Brobdingnag (Mayakovsky-Osmolovsky) (1993/2011) is photo documentation of a performance in which Osmolovsky perched on the shoulder of a monument of Futurist poet and radical Vladimir Mayakovsky. Although Osmolovsky’s gesture could be read an attempt to […]
Chto Delat, Study, Study and Act Again, 2011-14

Artist: Chto Delat [What Is to Be Done?] [Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Nina Gasteva, Artiom Magun, Nikolay Oleynikov, Natalia Pershina/Glucklya, Alexey Penzin, David Riff, Alexander Skidan, Oxana Timofeeva, Dmitry Vilensky] (collective founded in 2003 in St. Petersburg, Russia). Materials: Mixed-media installation. Description: 2013 installation at Tate Liverpool in the exhibition “Art Turning Left.” First presented in at […]