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Viktor Umnov and Oleg Kulik
Заповеди
Commandments
Moscow: Goppe, 2005
215 x 155 mm. 26 pages
Edition: 10, author’s copy signed by
authors and artist
Viktor Umnov (born 1931) is a painter, graphic
(book) artist and writer. In 1983 he created a book
of aphorisms which he uses in his works. In this
book his texts, placed horizontally by Goppe, are
complemented by vertically placed texts written by
Oleg Kulik (born 1961) who is a performance artist
and writer. Whether this 90 degrees opposition of the
texts is a typographical intervention or a translation
of the actual contents is not explained. Each
page with the texts is accompanied by a full page
lithograph by Goppe. In all there are 10 text pages
and 10 colour lithographs. The book is covered in
cloth wrappers with the title printed in silk screen.
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