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THBKomar and Melamid - The Wings Will Grow
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77 Bleecker Street, C2-18
New York, NY 10012
United States
CITYarts, Inc. is a nonprofit public arts and education organization recreated in 1989 by Executive and Creative Director Tsipi Ben-Haim after its predecessor, Cityarts Workshop, closed down in 1988. With a new name and a new mission, Tsipi Ben-Haim wanted the voices of our youth to be heard. She cr...Read more
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Buy NowJul 11, 2025 - Aug 31, 2025
CITYarts is a 501(c)(3) not for profit organization in NYC engaging youth in underserved communities with professional artists in the creation of public art. Sales from this auction benefit programs and projects in 2025-2026. Give yourself a gift for the summer and support our youth as future leaders! CITYarts tsipi@cityarts.org
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Komar and Melamid
The Wings Will Grow
1999Color screenprint on Rives BFK wove paper
21 × 18.89 inches (unframed)
44.5 x 31 inches (framed)
AP (no number given)
Once dubbed “exasperating expatriates” for their relentless, wry mockery of the social, political, and artistic systems of the former Soviet Union, Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid met as art students in Moscow, and teamed up in 1965. They worked together until 2004, creating an outpouring of paintings, sculptures, installations, performances, public projects, photographs, music, and poetry, charged with keen criticisms of Communism, consumerism, the art market, and other human excesses. In 1967, they founded the SOTS Art Movement, a mash-up of Socailist Realistm, Dada, Conceptualism, and Pop Art. “If pop-art was born by the overproduction of things and their advertising, then Sots Art was born of the overproduction of ideology and its propaganda, including visual propaganda,” Komar once explained. In 1978, they defected from the USSR and moved to America, where they could freely pursue their subversive vision. - Shipping Info
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