Mike Nelson, Barker Ranch, 1996
Artist: Mike Nelson (born 1967, Loughborough, UK). Material: Sculptural installation with wood and lights. Description: “Like the tip of an iceberg, the shape of the spiral has emerged at intermittent moments throughout Nelson’s career. It is central to the structure of works such as Barker Ranch (1996), which brought together Vladimir Tatlin’s Monument to the […]
Paul Thek, Uncle Tom’s Cabin with Tower of Babel, 1976
Artist: Paul Thek (born 1933, Brooklyn, New York City; died 1988) Material: Sculptural installation with wooden shack, bathtub, globe, stuffed red bird. Description: A two-storey version Tatlin’s Monument houses a sculpture of a wooden shack (the eponymous Uncle Tom’s Cabin), inside of which is a bathtub, a globe, and a stuffed red bird. But as […]
Mauricio Rocha, Intervention in the Torre de los Vientos, 1998
Top: photo-collage of installation Bottom: maquette Artist: Maurcio Rocha (born 1965 in Mexico City, Mexico; lives and works in Mexico City). Description: An architectural intervention in La Torre de los Vientos, a 1968 sculpture by Gonzalo Fonseca, at the invitation of Mexican artist Pedro Reyes. Rocha built a ladder similar to the framework used when […]
Chto Delat, Untitled (Tatlin’s Tower), 2013
Artist: Chto Delat [What Is to Be Done?] [Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Nina Gasteva, Artiom Magun, Nikolay Oleynikov, Natalia Pershina/Glucklya, Alexey Penzin, David Riff, Alexander Skidan, Oxana Timofeeva, Dmitry Vilensky] (collective founded in 2003 in St. Petersburg, Russia). Materials: Description: “The quotation [of Tatlin’s Monument] created by Chto Delat, a Russian collective of artists, critics, and philosophers, […]
Jonathan Monk, Eleven White Boetti Spines, 2020
Artist: Jonathan Monk (born 1969, Leicester, UK, lives and works in Berlin) Materials: Wood, gesso, white paint. Description: “Jonathan Monk has a large library and it is full of monographs and artist’s books from the 20th century. Following the Book Stacks from 2018, Jonathan Monk has picked eleven books about and by Alighiero e Boetti […]
Alexandra Pirici and Manuel Pelmus, Public Collection, 2014
Artists: Alexandra Pirici (born Bucharest, 1982, lives and works in Berlin) and Manuel Pelmus (born 1974, lives and works in Oslo and Bucharest) Description: Public Collection is a continuous performance in an exhibition context, performed by 3 or 4 dancers, that proposes the idea of an immaterial collection of modern art. Illustrated above: installation at […]
Robert Pruitt, Be of our Space World, 2009
Artist: Robert Pruitt (born 1975, New York; lives and works in New York) Description: Drawing in charcoal, conté crayon, mixed media, 48 x 36″ “Be of Our Space World focuses on the chiseled profile of a woman sitting at rigid attention. Her updo resembles Vladimir Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International, 1920, extending diagonally to […]
Ângela Ferreira, Monument to D. Flavin (an ideological utopia to contemplate), 2008
Artist: Ângela Ferreira (born 1958, Maputo, Mozambique; lives and works in Lisbon). Description: Outdoor sculpture constructed from aluminium and fluorescent lights, conceived for the Castelo de Guimarães, Portugal. Monument to D.Flavin (an ideological utopia to contemplate) brings together two works of art from the twentieth century: Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International (1919–1920) and Dan […]
Jorge Pedro Núñez, Electric Tatlin, 2011
Artist: Jorge Pedro Núñez (born 1976 in Caracas, Venezuela; lives and works in Paris, France). Description: Rendition of Vladimir Tatlin’s 1915 counter-reliefs. “I am interested in combining and juxtaposing different historical referents that derive from diverse places and times, and which coexist in an object. My work is related to drawing, sculpture, and painting rom […]
Kostis Velonis, Reconstruction of the Model of Tatlin’s Monument to the III International as an Instrument of Research for Domesticity, 2009
Artist: Kostis Velonis (born 1968; lives and works in Athens, Greece). Materials: Wood, acrylic, veneer, plywood, and paint spray Description: “[Kostis Velonis’s] sculptures and works on paper are an interestingly uneasy combination of two strains of recent art: the ‘Unmonumental’ school of haphazard, jerry-built, intuitively free-associative assemblage on the one hand; and a more concept-driven […]
