VOLKSEMPFÄNGER: ARTWORKS BY dAVID K.: APELLES ZYABLOV: THE LOST WORKS ON PAPER

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APELLES ZYABLOV: THE LOST WORKS ON PAPER

Following the 'discovery' of the world's first abstract art by Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid - the gold-framed black canvases of eighteenth century artist Apelles Zyablov, here is a series of previously unseen works on paper attributed to the same elusive source:

david K after Komar and Melamid

Apelles Zyablov - Lost Works on Paper

Repro Black etching ink, black gouache, oil, acrylic, black chalk,

graphite, and casein on found object (book page)

Variable edition of 50 sheets

Dimensions variable

2010 - 2013

The Volksempfänger ("people's receiver") was a radio receiver developed in 1933 to make radio technology affordable to the general public for propagandistic reasons. Despite the nature of the broadcasts the radio was intended to receive, the evil genius of the device was the efficient nature in which messages could be directly disseminated to the masses. The internet is the modern equivalent of the Volksempfänger - it costs little, it reaches millions of people, and one should be very, very critical of the rubbish emanating from it.