Kikodze Evgeniya and Gutova Nadezhda
Vladimir Slepian. Transfinite Art.
Edited by Evgenia Kikodze and Nadezhda Gutova
Grundrisse, Moscow, 2018
The volume edited by Evgenia Kikodze and Nadezhda Gutova is the first Russian-language publication of two texts by the artist and playwright Vladimir Slepian (1930-1998), a representative of Soviet unofficial art who left for France in 1958. The book includes the novella “Son of a Bitch” written from the perspective of a mad dog, which had been studied by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, and the manifesto “Transfinite Art”. The volume also contains accompanying articles by the art historian Eugenia Kikodze and by the curator and critic Jean-Pierre Salgas. An annex contains an abridged version of a talk given by the art historian Maria-Josep Balsach at a conference on Slepian along with vignettes by friends from the artist’s youth, Yuri Zlotnikov and Igor Shelkovsky.
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Nadezhda Gutova
Born in Moscow in 1961. Founder and artistic director of the Grundrisse publishing house. Graduated from the Mathematics Department of the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. After working as a high school teacher, she became the general director of the Gilea bookstore in the early 2000s. In 2008, she founded the Grundrisse publishing house dedicated to books by artists and scholarly studies on artistic processes. Lives and works in Moscow.
Evgenia Kikodze
Born in 1967 in Tbilisi. Art historian, critic, and curator. Graduated from the Department of History and Theory of Art at the Faculty of History, Lomonosov Moscow State University. Lives and works in Moscow.
