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Magaril / Anna Gurfinkel
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REF.AEC2.1240
32 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
2010
Magaril, Mikhail, Exhibition catalogs
From Inside Cover: “The exhibition ‘Utopia Amiss’ presents a comprehensive selection of work by Mikhail Magaril over the last decade. His influences range from the early Russian avant-garde art of the 1920s to the American Pop art of the 1960s. Turning the defunct Soviet vernacular into visual symbols, the artist transcends parochialism to address universally relevant issues from the toil for our daily bread to the disillusionment in fading doctrines. Born in Leningrad in 1950, Mikhail Magaril received his degree from the Moscow Printing Institute. Like many other unofficial Soviet artists of the period, Magaril made his living as a book illustrator collaborating with leading Leningrad publishing houses. In 1990, Mihkail Magaril emigrated to the United States. In 1991 he began working at the Center for Book Arts, New York.” His work is included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, the State Hermitage Museum, as well as rare book collections of the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, Yale, Harvard, and Cornell Universities. The exhibition was held from October 28-November 14, 2010 at the Mimi Ferzt Gallery in New York City.