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            Lev Rubinshtein
            Коммуналка
            Kommunalka
            Moscow: Goppe, 2008
            190 x 375 mm. 20 pages
            Edition: 10, copy № 3/10 signed by the author

            The poet Lev Rubinshtein (born 1941) is one of the founders of Moscow
            Conceptualism. During the 19760s and 1970s he developed his minimal
            poetry using index cards that were circulating throughout Moscow. The
            Kommunalka, the communal quarter, where people were forced to live
            close together, was nearly always a source for irritations. For this story
            Rubinshtein did not use verses but short sentences in prose to depict
            the reality in which the inhabitants had to comply to a multitude of rules
            and requirements. In his use of a comic-like set of illustrations combined
            with original photos from the period, Goppe fuses reality with artistic
            interpretation, just as Rubinshtein did in his poetry.





























































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