Monumental Propaganda
drawing printed in The New Yorker
1993
made in collaboration with Marina Temkina
The French artist Michel Gérard and the Russian poet Marina Temkina propose taking a group of onetime pedestals, stripped of their statues, inverting them, and planting a variety of humble vegetables on their tops, in celebration of the 'Post-Leninist Crop.'
A project initiated by Komar and Melamid and shown at the WTC traveling exhibition.
Bibliography:
The New Yorker, July 12, 1993. Portfolio: "Slight Modifications" by Lawrence Weschler.
Exhibitions:
World Trade Center traveling exhibition