Поэтический мир

"The instigator of" Moscow romantic conceptualism", whose work marked and held the gap between the new and the latest art" - with this wording, the artist and poet Andrei Monastyrsky was awarded the Andrei Bely Prize in 2003 in the nomination "For Special Merit to Literature". The book of poems by A. Monastyrsky, written in 1976 and supplemented in 2001, is published for the first time. This is a grandiose cycle that resembles a shamanic ritual and where all conceivable qualities of the human psyche and the universe as a whole act as the invoked spirits. Book-action, book-performance - one of the first realizations of the conceptualist idea of ​​a work-list, akin to L. Rubinshtein's "poems on cards" and D. A. Prigov's "ABCs". Her publication fills a previously existing gap in the history of unofficial Russian art. The publication includes photographs of visual works and actions of A. Monastyrsky from different years.