Be Softer, 2008
Object, mixed media
112 x 185 x 6 cm
Courtesy of the artists and the Multimedia Art Museum,
Moscow
Languages
MishMash project (Misha Leikin & Masha Sumnina)
About works
hard or soft?
smooth or fluffy?
heavy or light?
complete or composite?
round or square?
catch or throw?
aggression or defence?
individual or overall?
imprisonment or shelter?
pseudomorphism or biocenosis?
content or surface?
function or form?
full or empty?
true or false?
handicraft or art?
instrument or object?
necessary or useless?
interesting or boring?
serious or lighthearted?
derivative or authentic?
valuable or priceless?
disperse or collect?
in the hand or in the bosom?
coloured or speckled?
fragmentary or plural?
everybody or nobody?
female or male?
first or last?
naked or dressed?
mine or someone else's?
already or not yet?
eternal or temporal?
initial or final?
single or double?
incidental or vital?
stable or shaky?
kindly or harsh?
slipshod or stylish?
interpreted or inconscient?
refined or coarse?
acorn or mushroom?
ridiculous or sublime?
terse or transcendental?
binary or unambiguous?
You know? Be softer!
MishMash 2008
Bio
MishMash project (Misha Leikin & Masha Sumnina)
Misha Leykin
1968 born in Volgograd
1994 graduated from Moscow Architectural Institute
Lives and works in Moscow.
Masha Sumnina (Miturich-Khlebnikova)
1977 born in Moscow
2001 graduated from Moscow Academy of Printing
Lives and works in Moscow.
Selected Exhibitions:
2007 Apples Fall Simultaneously In Different Gardens. 1st Biennale of Young Artists, Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
Laboratoria. Experience 1. Laboratoria Art and Science Space, Moscow, Russia
Capitalism As Religion. National Centre For Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Moscow, Russia
2006 I Believe. Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
Wit Works Woe. Literary Museum, Moscow, Russia
Performance Super Jew Gives an Advice. Art-Strelka, Moscow, Russia
SuperJew made in China. ABC Gallery, Moscow. Russia
Atlas. ABC Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Mini. ABC Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2000 Defile. L-Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Public Art:
2007 7 Towers of Shargorod City (a city sculpture). Shargorod, Ukraine
2004 Robot (with Jayson Klotz), Leadbased Gallery, New York, USA
2002 The project Memorial Wind Organ. Finalists of competition on the Memorial to the victim of 9/11, inhabitants of the State of New Jersey
2002 Finalists of competition on the Memorial to the victim of 9/11, inhabitants of the Staten Island. Together with Shenker Architects
2001-2005 Objects the Physiognomy of Winds. The Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow, Art-Klyazma, Fat Margarita, Tallinn