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Viktor Goppe
Маленьки макарони
Small Macaroni
Moscow: Goppe, 2012
178 x 245 mm. pages nn.
Edition: 10, copy № 1/10
with the original designs
Small Macaroni is a collection of war poems by ten
contemporary poets. The title is in Ukrainian but the text in
Russian. In his introduction Goppe tells the story of Pliny the
Elder’s death following the eruption of the Mount Vesuvius
in 70 AD. Goppe does not explain why he choose this story
as an introduction nor why he included some deliberate
misspellings. He illustrated the book with silkscreen texts
printed on original photographs and colour lithographs on
alternate pages. The erotic photographs are adorned with
ancient Soviet slogans such as “Famers, vote for further
development of collective agriculture”.
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