Gallery PiranesiLAB presents the exhibition "Temporary Monuments" in the Print Art Room at the Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, which features a full-length series of silk-screen prints by Yuri Avvakumov, the author of conceptual projects in the field of "paper architecture."

Since 1986, Yuri Avvakumov has been exploring the architectural utopias of the early Soviet avant-garde, using them as the basis for his own imaginative projects. His unrealized projects combine an homage to the avant-garde of the 1910s and 1930s, the aesthetics of early socialist realism, and the artistic vision of a contemporary architect. In his series "Temporary Monuments," which consists of silkscreen prints on newspaper pages from Pravda and Soviet Russia, Avvakumov reinterprets the legacy of Vladimir Tatlin, El Lissitzky, Vera Mukhina, and other visionaries of the era, blending the motifs of the futuristic avant-garde with the language of late Soviet everyday life. Among these works are the reconstruction of Lisitsky's avant-garde "Lenin's Tribune" as a continuous ascending staircase, the "Flying Proletarian" amusement park swing project, and the hybrid monument "Worker and Peasant Woman. International," which combines Mukhina's sculpture with Tatlin's constructivist tower dynamics.

The graphic sheets continue with object and volume studies, "paper architecture" models, and 3D visualizations, representing a consistent search for form and the limits of artistic freedom in architectural thinking. The exhibition of the Print Art Cabinet will feature a complete series of Temporary Monuments on newspaper sheets, complemented by the object "Worker and Peasant Woman International". Traditionally, the PiraneseLAB Cabinet will continue to explore the artist's method in the print medium through open storage, showcasing cabinets with printed graphics and silk-screen prints from other series.