Where is Gursky?

18Apr08

I stood outside of Ekaterina Foundation for about twenty minutes with the other losers. The security was tight and the opening was packed. Everyone was eager to get in. It was an official occasion, a binding confirmation of the art scene’s hierarchy, but without too many artists or intellectuals. Socialites, curators, and collectors were all [...]

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Used Goods. A Series by Dmitry Gutov

04Apr08

Imagine a provincial late Soviet department store with half-empty shelves, sparse decorations behind the bleary windows. All the goods and appliances are a little dusty and old, held up by welded stand-screens of vertical iron rods falling askance Sixties style. A vacuum cleaner flies through space like a Sputnik. Handbags form suprematist compositions; transistor radios [...]

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