During the annual all-Russian Library Night, Sergei Bespamyatnykh, DVR Movement, and Rostan Tavasiev will introduce their artist’s books, created for Garage Library within the framework of the Single Copy program.
Launched by Garage Library in 2017, Single Copy is a project aimed at fostering the development of the artist’s book medium in Russia and expanding its own collection of artist’s books. Every year, the library commissions three Russian artists to produce unique works in a single copy edition for the Museum’s collection.
Sergei Bespamyatnykh (Novosibirsk), DVR Movement (Vladivostok), and Rostan Tavasiev (Moscow) have been selected to take part in the project in 2021.
Whales. A Book of Records by Bespamyatnykh S. by Sergei Bespamyatnykh was created with the aim of registering the artist’s works depicting whales, sold between November 1992 and March 2021. According to the author’s conception, it is designed to answer the question “Why do whales appear so often in his works?”, frequently addressed to Bespamyatnykh.
The Age of Freedom by DVR is defined by the authors as “a catechism and a reference book of the Khaganate-era house construction, compiled on the eve of DVR’s move to the village of Gornovodnoe in the north of Primorye.” Using the artists’ own words, the publication “was supposed to become a manifesto of a new form of collectivity, living together, and artistic creation, but in the process of writing, it attained the form of a grimoire about dreams and death, the sea and taiga, fragile ties and the Ussurians’ endless feast at the festive table.”
Rostan Tavasiev’s Catalog of Art Projects in Outer Space. Planetary Nebulae is a compilation of works for the implementation of which have been selected star systems that go through the initial stage of the planetary nebula formation. These works are meant to be realized directly in space.
Moderator: Valery Ledenev, Chief Librarian at Garage.
