Studio Agitarch (2 results)

Catalog 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 computer 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.

Catalog 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 movement 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former Soviet Union, developing designs impossible to architecturally realize, while being loaded with contemporary and historical references.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.