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Kuzma Vostrikov and Ajuan Song

Absolutely Augmented Reality

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A colorful parallel existence: The New York-based artist duo Kuzma Vostrikov and Ajuan Song


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Edited by Anna Gvirts
2020
Hardback
160 pages, 110 color illustrations
24 x 30 cm
ISBN 978-3-85881-863-8

Kuzma Vostrikov and Ajuan Song’s Absolutely Augmented Reality takes as its subject the intersection of fine art, photography, and the idea of authorship through a series of richly saturated, theatrical, and symbolic images that use costume, character, and allegory to create a sense of exploration and melancholic intrigue. In this dream world of strange and alluring portraiture, the viewer is delighted by a host of archetypal images, hybrid creatures, surreal motifs, and canonical postures, as well as inversions of iconic art historic references.

Appealing to fine art, design, and photography fans alike, this new book features some one hundred color images from Vostrikov and Song’s previously unpublished collaborative work. Alongside the photographs it features a brief introductory text by art historian Rosa J. H. Berland and critical essays by art critic Anthony Haden-Guest and Lilly Wei, as well as two interviews with the artists conducted by Iona Whittaker and Arnau Salvadó.

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“An excellently made book design with a mounted cover photo is convincing all along the line. If you open the art book, you will be blown away by the fantastic photo ideas. A pleasure what expects one here between linen covered book covers.” Horst Tress, Magazin Köllefornia

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