Irina Nakhova, Ironing Boards, 2001, Thermal Inkjet prints on fabric, boards, 135 x 42 x 3 cm. four irons, thermal inject on adhesive vinyl, 23 cm height

NEW YORK.-Windows at the Kimmel Center, New York University is pleased to present: Irina Nakhova: Disagreeable Matters – Disarming Icons, May 3 - May 29, 2007 an exhibition curated by Kalliopi Minioudaki Living and working mostly in New York since the 1990s, Irina Nakhova has been an influential yet neglected member of the younger generation of the Moscow Non-Conformists. Having begun as an underground painter of surrealist abstraction in the early seventies, she is best known for a series of ephemeral transformations of her government room through collage and painting (in the early 1980s) –a founding instance of Russian Conceptualism’s signature “total installations.” Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=20376