{"id":6092,"title":"The Swastika and the Pentagon","dimensions":"192 p, language: Russian, publisher: Ad Marginem, ISBN: 5911030039","date_begin":"2006-01-01","material":"ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2029/580","stream_count_app":21,"permalink":"the-swastika-and-the-pentagon","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/013/534/medium_500/book_icon.png?1354811710","cached_actor_names":"Pivovarov (Pavel Pepperstein)","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/042/781/large/20181127152552214_0001.jpg?1543329060","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/b\u003e Among other literary works of Paul Pepperstein - *Dictionary of the Moscow conceptual school*, a book of poems *The great defeat and a great vacation*, \u0026quot;psychedelic\u0026quot; Detective *The Swastika and the Pentagon*, a collection of horror stories, war stories and other illustrations to the latter two books were exhibited at the exhibition *The Pentagon*, held in 2006 in the gallery Regina. \u003cb\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/b\u003e \u0026#39;\u0026#39;Pavel Pepperstein is capable of very subtle graphic work, inventive installations and even conceptualist erotica captured on film. Pepperstein writes novels \u0026ndash; from the vast fantasy epic *The Mythogenic Love of Castes* (with S. Anufriev) to the exquisite refinement of his detective novel *The Swastika and the Pentagon* \u0026ndash; and performs rap. But for Pepperstein both fine art and literature are only instruments of investigative activity. It is no coincidence that the association of authors from the Young Conceptualists group he founded in the 1990s adopted the emphatically bureaucratic- scientific title *Inspection Medical Hermeneutics*. Pepperstein is interested in everything \u0026ndash; psychoanalysis (he is writing his own version of *The Interpretation of Dreams*) and Hollywood movies, the \u0026#39;collective unconscious\u0026#39; of Soviet ideology and the philosophy of Moscow Conceptualism, the schizoanalysis of Deleuze-Guattari and Castaneda, Orthodoxy and Zen Buddhism, classical literature and contemporary youth culture. (..) The utopian future seen in the landscapes the artist has recently drawn with abandon seem appealing just because this future is profoundly domesticated and elements of diverse, highly influential and menacing ideologies appear homely, familiar as souvenirs from distant lands displayed in someone\u0026#39;s apartment.\u0026#39;\u0026#39; - Irina Kulik [Russian Pavilion \u0026quot;Victory Over The Future\u0026quot;](http://www.russian-pavilion.info/eng/pepperstein.html) [Novel website](http://admarginem.ru/books/1478)\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVerhouding van de roman tot de praktijk van de kunstenaar\u003c/b\u003e \u0026#39;\u0026#39;Pavel Pepperstein is in staat om heel subtiel grafisch werk te maken, inventieve installaties en zelfs conceptuele erotica in de vorm van film. Pepperstein schrijft romans \u0026ndash; van het omvangrijke fantasy-epos *The Mythogenic Love of Castes* (met S. Anufriev) tot het exquise verfijning raffinement van zijn detectiveroman *The Swastika and the Pentagon* \u0026ndash; \u0026eacute;n hij rapt. Maar voor Pepperstein zijn zowel schone kunsten als literatuur slechts middelen tot onderzoek. Het is geen toeval dat het nadrukkelijk bureaucratische en wetenschappelijke *Inspection Medical Hermeneutics [Inspectie Medische Hermeneutiek] de titel werd voor de auteursvereniging van de groep jonge conceptuele kunstenaars die door hem werd gesticht in de jaren 90. Pepperstein is ge\u0026iuml;nteresseerd in alles: psycho-analyse (hij schrijft van zijn eigen interpretatie van Traumdeutung); Hollywoodfilms; het \u0026lsquo;collectieve onderbewustzijn\u0026rsquo; van Sovjet-ideologie en de filosofie van Russisch Conceptualisme; de schizo-analyse van Deleuze-Guattari en Castaneda; orthodoxie en zenboeddhisme; klassieke literatuur en hedendaagse jongerencultuur. (\u0026hellip;) In de landschappen die de kunstenaar recent en met overgave tekende is een utopische toekomst zichtbaar die aantrekkelijk is net omdat die toekomst zozeer gedomesticeerd is en elementen uit diverse, zeer invloedrijke en bedreigende ideologie\u0026euml;n lieflijk blijken, vertrouwd als souvenirs uit verre landen in iemands appartement.\u0026#39;\u0026#39; - Irina Kulik [Russian Pavilion \u0026quot;Victory Over The Future\u0026quot;](http://www.russian-pavilion.info/eng/pepperstein.html) [Novel website](http://admarginem.ru/books/1478)\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":1953,"name":"Pavel Pepperstein","category":{"en":"Author","nl":"Auteur","fr":"Auteur"}}]}