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Size: 740x550mm. 12 sheets of collages on packaging cardboard with
tracing paper inbetween. Cover: collage on velvet, pasted onto wooden
boards. Rikhardinkatu library collection, Helsinki.

This large format book is a parody on the aesthetics of the official albums used to represent small towns in late Soviet times. The work is carried out intentionally unprofessionally but with great care with a lot of gold, silver and red paint used. Collages consist of hand-made drawings, documents (tickets, fragments from local newspapers etc.) and low-quality photos of concrete sculptures from the fifties.

Special thanks: Alexander Werzeiser

© Alexander Reichstein
Hvalynsk - Moscow, 1988

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