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