|
Project Website (with 107 min. multimedia recording): http://slought.org/content/11155/
An evening slide lecture and peformance by Komar & Melamid, followed by a public conversation with Arden Reed and Kevin Platt.
Event sponsored by Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania.
 Read More About this Project (PDF Download)
Vitaly Komar (1943) and Alexander Melamid (1945) were born in Moscow. They attended and graduated from the Stroganov School of Art and Design in 1967. During the late 60s and early 70s, Komar & Melamid founded the movement "Sots Art," which combined the principles of Dadaism and Socialist Realism. They collaborate on various conceptual projects, ranging from painting and performance to public sculpture, installation, and photography. In 1974, their work, along with the work of other underground artists, was destroyed by Soviet authorities at the "Bulldozer Exhibition." By 1978 they were living in New York. Projects in the 90s are devoted to statistics ("People's Choice") and ecology (collaboration with animals, "Asian Elephant Project"). Komar & Melamid's most recent project, "Symbols of the Big Bang," connects mysticism and science. Marjor individual exhibitions: Museum of Moden Art (Oxford) and Museum of Decorative Art, the Louvre (Paris), 1985; Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1989; Museum of Modern Art (Cologne), 1997; Kuntshalle Vienna, 1998; Venice Biennial, 1999. Collections: Guggenheim Museum (New York), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, Museum of Modern Art (New York), Victoria and Albert Museum (London), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Albertina (Vienna), Museum Ludwig (Cologne), San Franscisco Museum of Modern Art, etc.
Arden Reed, Professor of English at Pomona College, California, is the Author of "Manet, Flaubert, and the Emergence of Modernism: Blurring Genre Boundaries" (forthcoming from Cambridge, in Norman Bryson's "New Art History" series), and a prize-winning book on European Modernism. He is a regular contributor to Art in America (an article on the Manet/Velazquez show will appear in the May 2003 issue). He recently organized a colloquium on art and attention, whose participants included James Turrell, Bill Viola, Lev Manovich, and Pauline Oliveros.
Kevin M. F. Platt is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of
Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania. He
is the author of _History in a Grotesque Key: Russian Literature and
the Idea of Revolution_ (Stanford UP, 1997) and a number of articles
concerning the representation of Russian history in literature and the
arts. He is currently at work on a book about Peter the Great and Ivan
the Terrible as Russian political and cultural myths in works of the
last two centuries up to the present day.
|
