Lot 178: Maxim Kantor

Newspaper
Signed in Cyrilic 'MAXIM' upper left. Signed, titled and dated 'Maxim Kantor Newspaper 2004' on the reverse.

160 x 240 cm (63 x 94 1/2 in).

Oil on canvas.

2004

Maxim Kantor - New Empire: Osnabrück, Felix Nussbaum Museum, 12 December 2004 – 20 February 2005; Luxembourg, Centre Cultural de Recontre, 3 November – 2 December 2005; Berlin, Akademie de Künste, 15 December 2005 – 29 January 2006. Venice, Querini Stampalia Fondazione, Maxim Kantor, 4 March  – 20 April 2005. Belfast, Ulster Museum, Maxim Kantor – Metropolis, 29 June  – 2 October 2005.  Duisburg, Museum Küppersmühle, Maxim Kantor, 15 February 2006 – 29 April 2006. Oxford, Mansfield Chapel, Reconstruction of the Babel Tower, 2 – 18 May 2010. Brussels, Domenican Cathedral, Maxim Kantor – Revelatio Johannis Apostili, 23 May – 8 June 2010. 
 

Literature: F. Arrobal, V. Hosle, D. Lejeune & D. Akimova, Maxim Kantor: New Empire, Bramsche, 2005, p. 90-1 (illustrated); T. Negri, V. Hosle, M. Kantor, One is Enough, Moscow, 2010, p. 190 (illustrated) 

Acquired directly from the artist.

The newspaper pages depicted by Maxim Kantor illustrate the central aspects of a political system in which the realization of most private individuality dominates the media.
The title is referred to the text depicted in the upper right corner: 'Revelatio Ioannis Apostoli', or The Revelation of St John the Divine (or the Apocalypse). The book, written by the Apostle on the island of Patmos, is interpreted by Kantor in Newspaper like a kind of newspaper documenting the end of days.