Michael Rakowitz, White Man Got No Dreaming (Tatlin Tower), 2008
Artist: Michael Rakowitz (born 1973 Great Neck, USA; lives and works in Chicago, USA) Materials: Sculpture using salvaged building materials (demolished Aboriginal houses), wire, copper pipe, and wood. Description: The work was produced in collaboration with groups in the contested Aboriginal neighborhood of Sydney known as The Block. The project also includes a […]
Grzegorz Klaman, Gates II, 2000
Artist: Grzegorz Klaman (born 1959 in Nowy Targ, Poland; lives and works in Gdánsk, Poland). Description: The artist was commissioned by the Gdánsk city government and the Polish trade union “Solidarity” to make a work of public sculpture. Klaman made two sculptures, Gates I and Gates II, the latter quoting Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International (1919–20). “[The work was […]
Yuri Avvakumov and Yuri Kuzin, Red Tower (Homage to Vladimir Tatlin), 1986
Artist: Yuri Avvakumov (born Tiraspol, Moldova, 1957; lives and works in Moscow, Russia) and Yuri Kuzin. Materials: Silk-screen print on newspaper. Description: Print on newspaper of Tatlin’s Monument to the III International (1919–20). Avvakumov was one of the “paper architects” working during the 1980s who could not successfully build anything. Described on the artist’s website as “a […]
Kcho, The Conquest of Space in the Eyes of History, 2001
Artist: Kcho [Alexis Leiva Machado] (born 1970 in Isla de Pinos, Cuba; lives and works in Havana, Cuba). Materials: Crayon on cardboard; 156 x 202.5 cm. Description: Revisits the theme of Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International (1919-20) from Kcho’s 1992 work To the Eyes of History. The drawing is a remix of Tatlin’s tower and Leonardo da Vinci’s […]
Michel Aubry, Mise en musique du Monument à la IIIe Internationale , 2000
Artist: Michel Aubry (born 1959 in Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët, France; lives and works in Paris, France). Materials: Sculptural model of wooden slats and reeds. Description: A reduced-size installation of Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International (1919–20). The work is part of a series of works that combines iconic works of modernist architecture and design with the Laundeddas, […]
