Studio Agitarch (2 results)
Published by Moscow: Project Russia, 1996 1996
Seller: Trevian Books, Piermont, NY, U.S.A.Trevian Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCatalog for the Russian Pavilion at the VI Venice Bienalle featuring unbuilt architectural plans and drawings from the Soviet era. The storage of the exhibition material is interesting: "Sixteen [flat] 30-file cabinets accommodating graphic sheets are to be arranged at random in the semi-darkness of the pavilion." There was comp…uter referencing for viewers wanting to see a specific exhibit. With list and illustrations of some of the exhibits; a laid-in image shows the file cabinets as installed. Also with brief essay by Konstantin Boym. Text in English and Russian. First edition. 30 cm; 16 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings, in wall calendar format so beloved by Russians. Corners bumped; else very good in stiff card wrappers.
Published by St. Petersburg: State Russian Museum, 1992 1992
Seller: Trevian Books, Piermont, NY, U.S.A.Trevian Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCatalog for an exhibition of the architect/artist's works on paper and in three dimensions, mainly staircases and structures heavily influenced by the work of his Constructivist ancestors. Shown in the 1992 St. Petersburg exhibition "Back to the Future, Forward to the Past". Avvakumov is a founder of the Paper Architecture movem…ent in the former Soviet Union, developing designs impossible to architecturally realize, while being loaded with contemporary and historical references. First edition. 42 cm; 12 pp.; illustrated. Wear to foredges; else a very good copy in tabloid format.
