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Yuri Avvakumov, Stair Ladder Barricade, 1989-1993
screen print
22 x 30 in.

Yuri Avvakumov was born in Tiraspol, Russia, in 1957. He graduated from the Moscow Architecture Institute in 1981. Avvakumov is a sculptor, a printmaker, and a practicing architect with his own firm, AGITARACH Studio, in Moscow. His work has been exhibited at the State Museum of Moscow, the Palazzo dell'Arte, Milan, and the Foundation pour l'Architecture, Brussels. He has been influenced by the Russian avant-garde artists of the 1920s such as Vladimir Mayakovsky, Ljubov Popova, and Konstantin Melnikov. Ladders and exposed stairwells are recurring themes in both his art and his architectural designs. For Avvakumov, ladders are carriers of meaning, becoming temporary monuments, symbols of construction and progress, or barricades.