For the press
The project ‘Victory over the Future’ by one of the leaders of the Moscow conceptual school, the writer, poet and theorist of contemporary art Pavel Pepperstein, was first shown at the 53rd Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art in 2009.
The title contains a reference to the Russian avant-garde — Mikhail Matyushin and Aleksei Kruchenykh’s celebrated opera ‘Victory over the Sun’, and at the same time echoes the name of the biennale ‘Art for the Future’.
Pavel Pepperstein creates new utopias in which he unites the most diverse layers of world and Russian culture. Constantly finding a point of resonance with the future, he weaves into his works both purely Russian mythologems, and the internationalised visual codes of the Russian avant-garde.
‘Victory over the Future’ is an elegant, humorous graphic series of absurdist landscapes depicting the distant future, and through their vague contours harsh supremacist elements are springing up.
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