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 […]
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, The Palace of Projects, 1995-2001
Artist: Ilya Kabakov (born 1933 in Dnepropetrovsk, USSR; died 2023) and Emilia Kabakov (born 1945 in Dnepropetrovsk; lives and works in Long Island, NY). Description: “The Palace of Projects, created by husband and wife Ilya and Emilia Kabakov is a spiraling architectural structure forty-feet high and eighty feet in diameter. The nautilus-shaped Palace is constructed of […]
Scipion Nasice Sisters Theater, Retrogarde Event Baptism under Triglav, 1986
Artist: Scipion Nasice Sisters Theater (founded 1983 by Eda Čufer, Miran Mohar, and Dragan Živadinov in Ljubljana, Slovenia; terminated 1987). Documentation: A group portrait of NSK [Neue Slowenische Kunst] members in front of a model of Tatlin’s tower from the Scipion Nasice Sisters Theatre production. Photo by Marko Modic. Description: In ‘The Founding Act’ (of 13 October […]
Electroboutique, 3G International, 2010
Artist: Electroboutique [Aristarkh Chernyshev and Alexei Shulgin] (collective, founded in Moscow, 2004; lives and works in Moscow). Materials: Fiberglass, duratrans, and electronics; 240 x 139.7 x 139.7 cm. Description: “A giant distorted iPhone 3G, shaped as Tatlin’s Monument to the [Third] International. Tatlin’s work is considered one of the avant-garde icons, whereas [the] iPhone is a bright […]
Chto Delat, “Debates on the Avant-Garde” cover illustration, 2007
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). Description: Illustration by Australian artist Zanny Begg for the front page of the newspaper Chto delat? (What Is to Be Done?), […]
Domenèc, Playground (Tatlin in Mexico), 2011
Artist: Domènec (born 1962 in Mataró, Spain; lives and works in Mataró). Description: Sculpture in playground in Mexico City. “Produced as part of the ‘Hand to Hand with General Cárdenas’ project by Antimuseum of Contemporary Art in Mexico DF. This replica of the Monument to the Third International designed by Russian artist Vladimir Tatlin in 1920 […]
Yuri Avvakumov, Perestroika Tower, 1990
Artist: Yuri Avvakumov (born 1957 in Tiraspol, Moldova; lives and works in Moscow, Russia). Description: In the mid-1980s Avvakumov produced a series of sculptural works titled “Temporary Monuments,” commemorating the constructivist art and architecture of the 1920s. Worker and Farmer International is a reference to Vera Mukhina and Vladimir Tatlin: the skeleton of Mukhina’s Worker and […]
Kcho, To the Eyes of History, 1992
Artist: Kcho [Alexis Leiva Machado] (born 1970 in Isla de Pinos, Cuba; lives and works in Havana, Cuba). Materials: Twigs, sticks, and twine. Description: Modeled after Tatlin’s unrealized Monument to the Third International (1919-20). Kcho’s tower, however, is topped with a used conical fabric coffee filter, recycling a failed monument into a quasi-functional item. Echo travelled outside Cuba […]
Zaha Hadid, The Great Utopia, Tatlin’s Tower, 1992
Artist: Zaha Hadid (born 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq; died 2016 in Miami, USA). Description: One of a series of 79 drawings and paintings executed for the design of the Solomon R. Guggenheim’s exhibition of Russian Constructivist art, “The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde” (1992). There are 32 ink drawings and 47 acrylic paintings, […]
Ai Weiwei, Fountain of Light, 2007
Artist: Ai Weiwei (born Beijing, China, 1957; lives and works in Beijing). Materials: Steel and glass crystals on a wooden base; 700 x 529 x 400 cm. Description: A remake of Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International (1919-20). In 1919, Tatlin’s work was a commentary upon the new industrial age and the harnessing of new technology; […]
