Nikita Alekseev. Aachen to Yakhroma

  • Year2024
  • LanguageRussian
  • Pages680
  • BindingHardcover
  • PublisherGarage publishing program
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Aachen to Yakhroma is a collection of illustrated travel notes from Nikita Alexeev’s journeys through Europe, something between a diary and a travelogue.

The texts and images that documented the details of his travels were a mnemonic tool which allowed the artist to easily recall memories of past events. These notes previously existed as an art object, a leather-bound «suitcase book» with over 600 drawings. Attached to it was a thumb drive with texts. The only copy of the «suitcase book» was sold to an unknown collector and lost. The drawings and texts from it are being published for the first time.  

Author

Nikita Alexeev (1953–2021) was a Soviet and Russian artist, a member of the art group Collective Actions, and one of the creators of the Moscow Archive of New Art (MANI). In the early 1980s, he opened the independent art gallery APTART in his apartment. He often worked with text, and many of his projects included his own commentaries. He wrote a number of books, including Rows of Memory, Hic Rhodus, hic salta, or Signs and Deeds of the Husbands of Shargorod, Your First Book: From A to Z and Back Again, In Search of the Broom Tree. Brief Thoughts of a Hermit from Solomennaya Storozhka, and Mediterranean Questions and Answers.

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