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Futurism

Null Zen: The Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings 0,10

Installation view of the Last Futurist Exhibition

The Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings 0,10 (pronounced “zero-ten”) was an exhibition presented by the Dobychina Art Bureau at Marsovo Pole, Petrograd, from 19 December 1915 to 17 January 1916. … The mysterious number 0,10 refers to a figure of thought: Zero, either because it was expected that after the destruction of the old world, the year zero could begin again, or because the artists exhibiting wanted to find the core of painting, and ten, because ten artists were originally scheduled to participate. In fact, there were fourteen artists who participated in the exhibition. | Wikipedia: 0,10 Exhibition (more…)

 


Daniil Kharms: subversive nonsense

A black and white photo of Daniil Kharms from the 1930s; the author is smoking a pipe and gazing at the viewer with an air of suspicion and defiance.

The fiction featured in the August 6, 2007 issue of the New Yorker, So It Is in Life, is by Daniil Kharms, a Russian author with a short, hard life extinguished under Stalin in 1942. His work, just now published in English for the first time, has drawn critical comparisons to Beckett, Camus, and Ionesco. Wrote Kharms in 1937: “I am interested only in nonsense, only in that which has no practical meaning.” (more…)

 


Jay Jurisich A Mound of Space

Jay Jurisich