Author: GOPPE, VIKTOR
Title: Victor Goppe: Making Books. With introduction by Albert Lemmens and Serge Stommels.
Description: Nijmegen, LS, 2017. 79 pp. As new. Paperback. In this exhibition catalogue Victor Goppe: Making Books you will discover the artist’s books of the Russian artist Viktor Goppe (1962). Each of his books is not just a striking artifact, it is also a daring experiment with the clear intention to find new forms of coexistence between words and images and trying out unusual ways to show their interactions. For his works it is important to understand that Goppe did not come of age in the stagnant cultural environment of the Soviet Union. Instead he belongs to a new generation that is the product of the tumultuous and excitingly diverse time of perestroika and the 1990s. Goppe got involved in the art of the Moscow literary conceptualism. He got acquainted with the painter Viktor Pivovarov (born 1937), the poets Igor Kholin (1920-1998), Genrikh Sapgir (1928-1999), and Vladimir Klimov (1951-2010). With their cooperation or approval he published artist’s books with their poetry, thus continuing the art of the Russian Avant-garde of the beginning of the 20th century. The books by Goppe are not only a chapter in contemporary Russian art but also in contemporary Russian literature. ISBN: 9789079393190

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