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Questions New York-Moscow-New York, collaboration between Douglas Davis (right) and Komar & Melamid (left), 1977.
Komar melamid stalin biography
Both signs ask, “Where is the Line Between Us?”
In a recent talk at the Getty Research Institute, artist Vitaly Komar described himself as a man of duality. Born in the USSR in 1943 and living in the U.S. since 1978, he identifies as half Russian and half American.
He sees Russian culture as something between Asia and Europe, between Christianity and Islam. And most of his artistic career has been as half of a duo.
From the 1960s through 2003, Komar worked with artist Alex Melamid as the artistic duo Komar and Melamid.
Together, they founded the Sots Art (Soviet Pop and Conceptual Art) movement in Russia, which co-opted the visual language of official Soviet state-sponsored art and propaganda.
In their work, Komar and Melamid often explored ideological and aesthetic dualities with the aim of uncovering the invisible lines that both join and divide humans.
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