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Alexei Rumyantsev

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Description

  • Alexei Rumyantsev
  • The Wall
  • faux silk and red bricks
  • dimensions variable
  • Executed in 2009, this work is unique and is accompanied by a certificate and instructions provided by the artist.

Provenance

Collection of the Artist

Exhibited

Moscow, M'ARS Centre for Contemporary Arts, M'ARSovo Pole- SODRUZHESTVO, 2009
Bukhara, On the streets of old Bukhara, 2010
Paris, Les Docks, Nearby, 2011

 

Literature

Irina Yashkova, "National-Modernism of 'Sodruzhestvo", in: DI Magazine, April 2009, p. 102, illustrated in colour

Catalogue Note

“Migrant labourers spend years working on foreign building sites, increasingly losing their national identities by ‘cementing’ it into walls.” Alexei Rumyantsev