Monumental Propaganda
Marina Tëmkina in collaboration with Michel Gérard
Monumental Propaganda
1993
Drawing printed in The New Yorker
"The French artist Michel Gérard and the Russian poet Marina Tëmkina propose taking a group of onetime pedestals, stripped of their statues, inverting them, and planting a variety of humble vegetables on their tops, in celebration of the 'Post-Leninist Crop.'"
Project initiated by Komar and Melamid, shown in a traveling exhibition at the World Trade Center.