Pavel Pepperstein
Gangster at the Sea, 1996, acrylic on canvas , 40 x 60 cm ( 15 3/4 x 23 5/8 inch )
Pavel Pepperstein was born 1966 in Moskau, where he lives and works.
Pepperstein is one of the founders of "Inspection Medical Hermeneutics" (together with Yuri Leiderman). He mainly produces naturalistic, highly fanciful, child-like drawings that are hard to reconcile with their radical, Dadaistic claims. Part of the myth surrounding the group is that their Moscow Conceptualism is rooted in the world, and spirit, of children's books. The avant-garde of the previous generation had earned their living in graphic design or book illustration, and Pepperstein's own father, Pavel Pivovarov, used picture albums to develop a form of story-telling that was both lyrical and visual. Pepperstein himself similarly uses an imaginative combination of drawings and word games, theory and exaggerated fable. Boris Groys has described his approach as like a 'theoretical family conversation', something that comes out of nothing and disintegrates into nothing.
Pepperstein is one of the founders of "Inspection Medical Hermeneutics" (together with Yuri Leiderman). He mainly produces naturalistic, highly fanciful, child-like drawings that are hard to reconcile with their radical, Dadaistic claims. Part of the myth surrounding the group is that their Moscow Conceptualism is rooted in the world, and spirit, of children's books. The avant-garde of the previous generation had earned their living in graphic design or book illustration, and Pepperstein's own father, Pavel Pivovarov, used picture albums to develop a form of story-telling that was both lyrical and visual. Pepperstein himself similarly uses an imaginative combination of drawings and word games, theory and exaggerated fable. Boris Groys has described his approach as like a 'theoretical family conversation', something that comes out of nothing and disintegrates into nothing.
For information on Pavel Pepperstein at 53rd Venice Biennial 2009, please click here