Pavel Pepperstein / Ilya Dmitriev – The Future
20,00 €
53rd Biennale di Venezia
Vinyl · 2019
Issue: KOO001
Author: Pavel Pepperstein / Ilya Dmitriev
Title: The Future (53rd Biennale di Venezia)
Tracklist:
The Future – 10:36
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 180g, Single Sided, Limited Edition: 300 copies, Numbered
Year: 2019
Barcode: 0707772999951
The first release on Koo Editions features Pavel Pepperstein’s exhibition in the Russian pavilion of the Venice Biennale in 2009, which is presented again here, ten years later. Since 2009 was the year of the centenary of the Futurist Manifesto, the thematic reference looks to the historical avant-garde: it is in fact a work of Russian retrofuturism and bold beauty. The recording is titled The Future and introduces a radical criticism for the Russian being in not suspicious times.
Its roots go back to the past experience gained by the author in the Inspection Medical Hermeneutics, a pioneering artists’ collective formed in 1987 in a squat in Moscow during the years of Glasnost and Perestrojka. On the cover there is an image chosen from the paintings displayed in the exhibition. Inside there is an extended track of Ilya Dmitriev, a mixable retro electronic flow deliberately influenced by ’80s disco archetype. Pepperstein’s speech blows over the beat from the ultra-world and goes in an unexpected direction, far from any hedonistic exaltation, embracing a severe criticism of a future towards which he absolutely does not want to tend. The artist, of unquestionable fame and international value, takes strong positions against the western mainstream cultural narrative and art market policies which deserve to be slammed in the face of today’s public.
Artwork: “The view on the Great Black Cube – the headquarter of the government of Russia – from the old city 2099.” – Pavel Pepperstein, 2002
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