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Andrey Monastirsky
"Cannon"
1975
Wood, cardboard, paper, metal, plexiglas, paint, print
54x54x66
Section: Object
Period: 1970s
Moscow Conceptualism,
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The "Gun" is an early work by Monastyrsky and, perhaps, one of the first interactive artworks in the history of Russian conceptualism. The function of artistic method here lays in a mismatch of a spectator's expectation from contact with the object. Instead of visual effect, a sound is going on, turning a form of the work into deceptive hollow simulacrum.

Vladimir Prokhorov, Olga Turchina

 

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Andrey Monastirsky
1949
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