Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fellow Dmitry Kaminker’s Rome Sustainable Tower Project will be on display in the AAR Gallery for one day only, on Wednesday, February 29, 2012. Kaminker arrived at AAR in September 2011 from Saint Petersburg and, over the course of his three-month fellowship, created an arresting twelve-foot-high tour de force of narrative whimsy and political commentary inspired by the symbols and monuments of the Eternal City, undergirded by references to Mother Russia and spurred to new heights with contributions by Rome Prize Fellows. His towering cardboard tableau features mythological subjects vivified in high relief, placed in anachronistic settings and imbued with playful irreverence—from the prostrate business man suckling on the She Wolf to the bullhorn-wielding charioteer labelled “The Unknown Organizer.” It’s an ingenious iconographic mash-up shaped by a mordant wit and an X-Acto blade and held together with a decoupage of odes, musical scores, and masking tape.

One day only: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
AAR Gallery hours: noon–8:00pm
Free admission