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commissioned by director Peter Noever, curated by Baerbel Vischer, MAK Gallery, October 2009 - March 10, 2010

photos Rainer Ganahl (with permission of MAK - for publicaiton please ask MAK, Vienna)

press release: (german) from the museum :

about this work:

here ORF TV report:

click to enlarge if small - most images have large pics. enclosed

 

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DADALENIN UEBERVOLKSERZIEHUNG / PEOPLE'S UBEREDUCATION

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Installation views

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DADALENIN GO GOOGLE

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Reading Lenin:

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more READING LENIN photos here

 

DADALENIN FRITZHABER

World War I and Fritz Haber / Clara Immerwahr, Mustard Gas and masks

Fritz Haber - develops poison gas and makes it applicable for WWI, 1915 Ypres, (about 100 000 died in WWI, half a million seriously affected) ; 1918 he gets a Nobel price in chemistry; his chemist wife, Clara Immerwahr (translate: always true) prostested Haber's work and committed suicide; that same day, Haber travels to the Eastern front (against Russia) and deploys more gas at the front. Haber, his institute and his firm (I.G. Farben) was also instrumental for the development of zyclon b gas, used in Nazi gaz chambers; due to the fact that he was a German Jew he was forced to leave Germany in 1933. Haber committed suicide (most likely) in Basel in 1934. Haber defended the use of poison gas with the sentnece "death is death". DADALENIN - tragic-ironic paradoxes squeezed by war, ideology, creativity and destruction.

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This book, Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalsim, was written in Spiegelgasse, in Zurich and analyzes WWI as an imperialist war. It's a great studyand worth reading still today - something we did excensively in New York, Zurich, (Cabaret Voltaire), in Baltimore, in Gorizia (WWI - battle field with over a million fallen soldiers) in Moscow and in other places. see photographs below

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Lenin's last kiss in Switzerlan (with Tzara)

Lenin and Tzara had a strange relatiionship that is far from understood. In Tzara's text "L'homme approximative" (1931) (The approximative man) he writes about "having several noises in him" ... he goes on: "at night I was following those miserable figures of the night, really nameless emigrants" - and he continues in a way that resembles a gay outing.

"On a cord one man leads another man or they walk hand in hand an his side and yet, one is incorporating the other..." (L'homme mène en laisse un autre homme ou se promène à côtéde lui, la main dans sa main et pourtant l'un est enfermé dans l'autre..." (Tristan Tzara, Oeuvre complètes, vol. 3, p. 32)

Who knows what relationship Tzara really had with Lenin. But Dada got some idea and was slightly iinformed which he depicted in his famous painting "Partial Hallucination, six images of Lenin on a piano" 1931, Pompidou) - in this painting (the nuber 6 could represent the 6 main dadaist protagonists) we see a man resembling Tzara wiht a set of cherries, Tzara's symbol we also see in his wonderful drawing/ word game rhyming the fin - l'amour. The french word end "fin" sounds like "fait" from (faire - to make" and it sounds like "make love" - the cherry symbol resembles gently a set of male testicals with a flash pointing towards the french word for "Love." On the piano, we see aunts eating up a score, also a quote of one of Tzara's oniric writings, and expressed in yet another of his text/drawings entitled "Le Coeur à gaz" (The gaz heart).

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DADALENIN LENIN KRUPSKAYA

Krupskaya: revolutionary, Lenin's wife and people's commissioner for (minister) education. I found both sculptures at the Warsaw station (flee market). both sculptures were seperate and they don't belong together. they are of differnt size. but put togehter. .their nose touch as if made for "life and death".

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DADALENIN EBAYLENIN ...

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DADALENIN DADA IS BRUTAL ....

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ALL MY MAK 2009/2010 DADALENINISTS

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DADALENIN Write nothing, Read nothing, Say nothing, publish nothing

Interesting enough, there is a group of Russian dadaist under the title of "Nitschewoki" (from the russian word 'nothing " - nitchewo-) who published a manifesto under names that also play with names resembling Lnein (Leniwzyn = do nothing man, german: Faulpelz). one of their manifests goes as followed:

Write nothing

Read nothing

Say nothing

publish nothing

With the mental and physical end of Lenin who suffered a stroke, this annonymous group - who got funding from the ministry of culture under Lenin - also stopped its existence.

Also not to forget the impressive picutre of Lenin from 1919 playing with the megaphone of a phonograph resembling more the look of an acknowledged dadaist than the leader of the Bolshewik revolution and the coming Soviet Union.

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dadalenin go google... go wikipedia...

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DADALENIN HUELSENBECK PHANTASTISCHE GEBETE

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DADALENIN MARCELJANCO MEHRWERT/SURPLUS VALUE

 

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more on this work:

 

DADALENIN: PS: USE YOUR TOUGHEST PEOPLE FOR THIS

PERSONAL HANGING / EXECUTION ORDER BY LENIN:

Lenin's Hanging Order documents that Lenin himself ordered terror: (sources from Wikipedia, taken from BBC, and Public Library of congress) - Russian telegram and execution order:

(read then UBU ROI - and you get and idea where Lenin's ideas might have come from). the sculputre of dzirshinsky and stalin I bought in Warsaw. Dzirshinksy, the brutal head of the Checka had his head already damaged. the plastic bag was given to me. Stalin also still sells even in Warsaw.. but for little money.

 

 

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the Belomor Cigarets are the onlything remembering the belomor canal construction . all publications were destroyed, forbidden, nearly the entire administration killed and the canal pushed into oblvion. today, these cigaretts belong to the strongest in the world. smoking kills ! the design has never been altered.

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dadalenin dzigavertov kinopravda filmtruth

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Dziga Vertov's Man with a Camera tries to give an "unedited" view on Soviet life - in 1929; He tried to create a cinematic experiment to "create a truly internationall absolute language, a cinema based on the total separation from the language of theater and literature, ... without sets, actors, etc. "

I have selected 42 film stills and had them rendered in ink with the help of my assistant. Vertov's experiment to "create an international abosolute language". the ink drawings highlight the wonderful believe in the revolution of a new artistic medium (hence: my anachronisitc format) i.e. film who was of cousre, immediately instrumentalized in propaganda and worse.

Dada is interpreted by me not only as a critic of utopian dreams but also as a non-explicit critic of technology. the film's embrace of mechanical representation and its drive to overcome theater, literature and other forms of art - transcending actors, film sets and screenplays - interests me since it is embedded in the teleological hopes for a Lenininst soveit society that is equal, just and hence 'representational". The technics of superimposing and flicker montage as well as the cameramen's sensibility to caputre the poetry of his nearly encyclopedic approach to filming the soviet industry, soviet work and it's daily live (including war, accidents and death) allow to create moments that are dadaist in appearance and spirit. Needless to say, that Lenin (as well as his Fife Year plan) also has his appearance.

needless to say, the film is really also about production and specifically the production of this film. filming is presented as part of the national production of a soviet empire, the (dada)lenin revolution. the cutting of the film --- editing is given a major importance.. as well as srcreening.. : the public is also alwasy included. the major protagoist is the camera man. or lets say, the man with the camera, walking, standing, driving, flying, doing magic with his camera.. filmed by another camera which is not in the screen.. (there is no mirror situation with 2 camera in the screen but sometimes the objective of one camrea mirrors the filming second camera ---

yet another observation : the omnipresence of the film camera is an anticipation of the control totalitarian society turned into.. - and neo-liberal societies are now becoming : even without cameras --- we are seeing now without cameras... (electronically - by what people key into computers == ps: we see typwriters in Vertov).last but not least, even the viewer in Vertov's film, the spectator in the movie is subject to filming and gets scrutinized non stop... just like today's advertizing agencies are having their ratings measured.

these drawings give us back the breath that is taken while seeing these news real kind of strips... and one can see that it is a very carefully, aestheticized and thoughfully edited film that not only had a script but also an ideological basis that carries these images into eternity trying to render film making into the most sublime of all productions topping even the people in machine rooms and miners underground.

Vertov was himself a victim of the Soviet System he helped to create inasfar as he couldn't really tell the "truth", was in fact pushed out from his job and couldn't do anymore his real shows.... Even the Soviet Union prefered "hollywood style" genres to his topological filming. Thus he is himself DADALENIN and can be happy to have survived it. (which might not have been the case, had he had more success -- as in the case of Stalin's Social Engineering who where all liquidated and executed.

paper size: 19 x 24 inches (48 x 61 cm ), inch on paper

more of these drawings here:

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DADALENIN ALEXEJ GASTEV SOCIAL ENGINEERING

DADALENIN_ENEGENEERING - is a series of 12 painting, based on still images from a history channel on soviet social engineering. So many aspects of soviet life are tragic-comical and deserve to be named "dadaleninist". unfortunately, Lenin's utopianism was taking too often, too literal with desastrous consequences for hundred millions of people, many starving to death due to false planning and catastrophic implementation of new forms of doing things on every level. often these engineers were later also put on trail and executed without much due justice. one of them was Alexandre Gastev who was involved in the invention and introduction of the five year plan was working on "social engineering machines". Later, Stalin had him executed under the false pretense of counter-revolutionary activities

OIl on canvas, 20 x 24 inches, 51 x 61 cm .

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see individual works here:

 

DADALENINRODCHENKO BELOMORCANAL MERHWERT / SURPLUS VALUE, 1931-33/2009

click image for high res (this series only)

please. do consult wikipedia about the atrrocities of the Belomorkanal constructed by Stalin and his Tchecca ... which was photographed and published

(artist in residence) by Alexandre Rodchenko.

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Looking for witnesses of the construction of the Belomorkanal, produced 1931-33 with forced labor

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GO WIKIPEDIA BELOMORKANAL

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DADALENIN New York Times Obituaries

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V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, (Russian Edition) 1962, 2007

5 min. video

In the European and Russian tradition of book destructions, I am kicking a Russian edition of Lenins collected works accross the Red Square towards the Lenin Mausoleuml, where he still is for view almost daily until 1 pm. This work landed me in the hand and then in the car of the police. I was accused of Holigansim, an accusation that was "forgiven" after a payment of about 150 dollars - so to say, my most expensive taxi ride in Moscow.

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5 min. video

 

 

 

 

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DADALENIN bronze letters

From the Lenin Monument, October Square, to Lenin Mausoleum, Red Square - Bicycling Moscow, 2007

24 min. video

Like with other bicycle works I decided on two significant points of the city which I liinked by my unconventional bicycle riding, wihtout holding the handlbar, but filming. Upon my arrivalat the red square, I was greeted by police directly at the Mausoleum, IDed, searched and asked to deflate my tires.

24 min.

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dadalenin lenin made in USSR (sculpture and plastic bag) 2007

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dadalenin lenin dada (sculpture and porcelain letters) 2007

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Lenin's bike accident, Geneva 1903

animation film --see film

in the meantime, we are tryting to illustrate this dramatic, could have history-changed-bike-ride by a paper cut animation film - a technique not necessarily at the forefront of contemporary animation. Lenin almost lost his eye in Geneva, in october of 1903. at the congress of "The liga of Russian Revolutionary Social Democracy" (26 - 30th October 1903) Lenin was wearing a eye patch - like blind people do. (in that specific congress he was defeated by an opposing group within the party- the menscheviks versus the bolsheviks) >> facit: shit happens even to Lenin.

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THE END

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This Show is Brought to you by Belomorkanal

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Rainer Ganahl
Worklist: MAK

This list is not complete
The titles are not correct.. but only for achriving.. not made by me (rg)
A:

- 2 x books kicked around Red Square in Moscow

: 1 whole book, 1 book without cover

: format A5 (each)

- 2 x photoprints of the Reading Seminars

: in colour

: size 51 x 61 cm (each)

- 3 x works on paper from the Dadalenin series

: sketch drawings - ink, pencil, collage

- 4 x Google page prints on watercolour paper

: in colour

: size 76 x 66,5 cm (each)

- 13 x print outs from the internet taken in Moscow

: in B/W

: format A4 (each)

 

B. JANCO´S DRAWINGS

from: Tel Aviv, Israel

- 1 x envelope with invoice for purchasing Janco´s works in Tel Aviv

- drawing The Beggar, 1934

: black ink on paper

: in white mount

: size (incl. mount) 43,1 x 36 cm

- drawing The Protest, 1935?

: black ink on paper

: in white mount

: size (incl. mount) 48 x 38,3 cm

- drawing Two Dancers, 1930

: black ink on paper

: in white mount

: size (incl. mount) 38,5 x 46 cm

- drawing Bandits, 1935

: black ink on paper

: in white mount

: size (incl. mount) 46 x 36,5 cm

- collage The six Days

: black ink on paper

: size 30,3 x 23,8 cm

C. LENIN BUSTS (EBAY PURCHASES BY RAINER)

- 1. black, glossy

arrival: 2008-03-19 from Ukraine

size: ca 12,5 x 10,5 x 7,5 cm

- 2. yellow brass ?

arrival: 2007-11 from Ukraine

size: ca 9 x 5,5 x 5 cm

- 3. yellow brass ?

arrival: 2008-03-11 from Ukraine

size: ca 9 x 5,5 x 5 cm

- 4. black

arrival: 2008-03-18 from Ukraine

size: ca 23 x 14 x 11 cm

- 5. yellow brass ?

arrival: 2008-03-18 from Ukraine

size: ca 22 x 17 x 13 cm

-6. black

arrival: 2007-09 from New York, USA

size: ca 13,5 x 8,5 x 6,5 cm

-7. grey cast-iron?

arrival: 2007-12

size: ca 12 x 10,5 x 6 cm

 

 

D.

-1. chair with embroidery

size: ca 90 x 42 x 45 cm

-2. Lenin on the wire

arrival: 08.03.28 from Warsaw

size: ca 18 x 6 x 6 cm

cast-iron?, on the wire

-3. picture Warsaw

arrival: 08.03.28 from Warsaw

size: 60 x 50 cm

photograph in the frame

delivered with broken glass

-4. The bust of Lenin

arrival: 08.03.28 from Warsaw

size: 16 x 12 x 8 cm

black

-5. The bust of woman

arrival: 08.03.28 from Warsaw

size: 17 x 18 x 10 cm

cast-iron?


E. FROM RUSSIA

-1. Porcelain bust of Lenin

arrival: 08.03.31 from Russia

size: ca 15 x 16,5 x 8 cm

white porcelain

-2. Porcelain head

arrival: 08.03.31 from Russia

size: 11 x 14 x 11 cm

white porcelain

-3. Porcelain letters:

-20 flat letters

arrival: 08.03.31 from Russia

size: ca 7 x 8 cm each

20 pieces white porcelain

-A

arrival: 08.03.31 from Russia

size: ca 9,5 x 10 x 3 cm

white porcelain

-A 2

arrival: 08.03.31 from Russia

size: ca 12 x 11 x 3 cm

white porcelain

- D

arrival: 08.03.31 from Russia

size: ca 8,5 x 7,5 x 2,5 cm

white porcelain

- D2

arrival: 08.03.31 from Russia

size: ca 8,5 x 7,5 x 2,5 cm

white porcelain

- E

arrival: 08.03.31 from Russia

size: ca 15 x 10 x 4 cm

white porcelain

- I

arrival: 08.03.31 from Russia

size: ca 12 x 4 x 3 cm

white porcelain

- L

arrival: 08.03.31 from Russia

size: ca 13,5 x 10,5 x 3,5 cm

white porcelain

- N

arrival: 08.03.31 from Russia

size: ca 12 x 10,5 x 2,5 cm

white porcelain

- N 2

arrival: 08.03.31 from Russia

size: ca 14 x 12,5 x 2,5 cm

white porcelain

DADA letters smaller size

arrival: 08.03.31 from Russia

size: ca 7 x 7 x 2 cm each

4 pieces white porcelain

-4. UBU ROL

arrival: 08.03.31 from Russia

size: A2

drawing/ pencil, colour pencils

 

 

 

F. LENIN BUSTS AND SCULPTURES

1. Black Glossy: size 7 x 2.5 x 3

2. Yellow Brass: size 11 x 6 x 5

3. Reddish iron? Stalin bust: 11 x 8.5 x 5.5

4. Grey iron cast: 14 x 8.5 x 6.5

5. Silver bust: 15 x 9 x 6

6. Silver Lenin bust: size 12.5 x 8 x 8.5

7. Brownish bust: size 21 x 12.5 x 8.5

8. Lenin bust with hat: size 20 x 15.5 x 13

9. Metallic bust: size 24.5 x 17 x 17.5

10. Dark grey bust: size 26.5 x 28 x14

11. Standing Lenin: size 18 x 7 x 6

12. Grey Standing Lenin: size 18 x 7 x 6

13. Standing Lenin with cape: size 25 x13 x 12

14. Standing Lenin: size 36.5 x 15x 7.5

15. Tristan Tzara bust in clay/wax?: size 34 x 13 x 14

G. PORCELAIN

1a. PS: USE YOUR TOUGHEST PEOPLE FOR THIS! size:24 x 37 x 1

1b. PS: USE YOUR TOUGHEST PEOPLE FOR THIS! size 16.5 x 27.5 x 1

2a. DADAJAJAYEAHYEAH LENIN: size 18 x 19 x 1

2b. JAJAYEAHYEAH DADA LENIN: size 19 x 17.5 x 1

3a. DADA ALWAYS TRUE (gasmask): size 17 x 24 x 2.5

3b. DADA ALWAYS TRUE (gasmask): size 23 x 28.5 x 2.5

4a. Gasmask attachments: size 15 x 14 x 8

4b. Gasmask attachments: 15 x 14 x 8

5. Porcelain group bust (Lenin with Dadaists heads): size 15 x 23 x 8

6. Porcelain Lenin bust on block: size14 x 9 x 9

H. PORCELAIN LETTERS

Group I.

1. Large Fat “N” size 22 x 18.5 x 2

2. Large Fat “C” size 23 x 13.5 x 1.5

3. Medium Fat “Y” : (2 x, labeled 3a and 3b), size 15.5 x 10.5 x 1.5

4. Medium Fat “A”: (2 x, labeled 4a and 4b) size 15.5 x 10 x 2

5. Medium Fat “C” size 16.5 x 10 x 2

6. Smaller Fat BROKEN “A” size 15 x 6.5 x 2

Group II.

1. Medium “DADA”: size each letter ca. 10 x 11 x 1.5

2. Large “E” size 17 x 9 2.5

Group III.

1. Large “DADA” ca. each letter size 11 x 9 x 3

2. Medium “DADA” ca. each letter size 8.5 x 5.5 x 2

Group IV.

1. Large “A” size 29 x 29.5 x .5

2. Medium “A” size 17.5 x 18.5 x .5

3. Medium “D” (2 x labeled 3a +3b) size 18 x 13 x .5

4. Medium “D” (2 x labeled 4a +4b) size 17.5 x 10 x .5

5. Medium “A” size 17 x 15 x .5

6. Small “A” (2 x labeled 6a +6b) size 12 x 13.5 x .5

7. Small “D” (2 x labeled 7a + 7b) size 11 x 7 x .5

8. Smaller “A” size 10 x 9 x .5

Group V.

1. Medium “FRITZ HABER” size, each letter ca. 12 x 9 x 2

2. Large “DADA” size, each letter ca. 14 x 10 x3

3. Medium “DADA DADA” size 11.5 x 10 x 2

4. Smaller “A” (4x) size each letter ca. 10 x 9 x 2

5. Smaller “D” (4x) size each letter ca. 9.5 7 x 2

6. Tiny Letters size ca. 5 x 4 x 1.5

(“A” x11, “D” x11, “N” x 3, “I” x 2, “E” x 2, “L” x 2, “B” x1)

I. Bronze works

1. PS. USE YOUR TOUGHEST PEOPLE FOR THIS! DADALENIN size 9x 13 x 15

stuff not mentioned above:

Ungef. 25, Please, write down what you think of Lenin, Moscow, Biennial 2007, 2007
Pvc panels, pens and colors
Greosse. Ungef. 80 x 50 cm

About 20 bronze sculptures see web site:
FRITZHABER DADANOBEL, 2007/8, handmade glass and lead, 2007/8, handmade glass and lead
GASMASK, 2007/8, handmade glass and lead
DADALENIN, 2007/8, handmade glass and lead

FRITZ HABER CLARA IMMERWAHR, 2007/8, 3 marble sculptures

Gasmasks

Dziga vertov water colors. About 30 or so, water color on paper 20 x 24 inches (50 x60 cm)
Gastev paintings, oil on canvas 20 x 24 inches (50 x 60 cm) approx. 13 or more
Photogrphas…
Many drawings and printes …. May be 50 different sizes
10 or so lithos.
Reading Lenin fphotographs: 14 – 18pieces. 50 x60 cm
DADALENIN NY TIMES DADADEATH, Tristan Tzara, 1963, 2008 ink jet print on paper, 64 x 48.5 cm / 25 1/4" x 19 1/8 inches

3 google paintings, ungef. 120 x 75

dialog panels – about 10 pieces , panels, size: appr. 180 cm x 120
dialog cubes (fahlstroem) – student group: cardboard boxes.. flat ..
dialog stuff: - little bicycle.. tenstalenin , etc.

revisiting moderna Stockholm stuff:
dadaleninmodernadalienigmatelllenin1933/2008, 2008 color crayon on paper
dadaleninmodernafahlstromlenin'slastkissinzurich, 2008 (drawing, painting on wood)
dadaleninmodernalouisebourgeoisportraitofdadalenin1949/2008, 2008 (wood, burned in text)
dadaleninmodernabrancusiportraitofjamesjoycedadalenin1947/2008, 2008
dadaleninmodernafahlstromtenstaparkinglotfish, 2008 9 photographs


Mausoleum - wooden structure
dadaleninmodernalouisebourgeoistombofyoungdadalenin, 1947/2008 wooden sculputer ungef. 160 cm x 25 . x 25 cm

PLEASE WRITE DOWN WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT LENIN, TENSTA/STOCKHOLM, 2008 - works on paper 60 x 80cm approx.

PLEASE MAKE A DRAWING OF LENIN, TENSTA/STOCKHOLM, 2008 - works on paper

3 wooden – leninkurpskaya panels used in theater/performance, wooden panels