Viktor Goppe

(1962 - )               [

[The long playing]

Moscow: Goppe, 2014

Cover 380 x 260 mm.

Unique copy

Model 1

Moscow: Goppe, 2014

Cover 160 x 188 mm.

Unique copy

Model 2

Moscow: Goppe, 2014

Cover 160 x 188 mm.

Unique copy

Model 3

Moscow: Goppe, 2014

Cover 360 x 160 mm.

Unique copy

Evgenii Rein (born 1935) joined in the early 1960s a group of poets around Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) in Leningrad. In 1971 he moved Moscow where he still lives and works. ‘The long-player’ contains seven poems dating from 2010, that for the most part are devoted to a journey into memory, describing the mood that marked the decline of the era and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Goppe designed the cover in the form of a vinyl LP. His lithographs follow the narrative of the poems, for example in the image where Venice and Russia are joined together. The central pages, in gloomy crimson and black colours, show the four poets around Akhmatova in the early 1960s: Dmitrii Bobyshev, Evgenii Rein, Anatolii Naiman and Joseph Brodsky, who are also known as ‘Akhmatova's Orphans’. All four appear in strange shapes such as a toothed bird, shapes in the form of a cat and a mouse, and a shaded male head with a hat. Goppe also included in the book two lithographs after drawings by Igor Shelkovskii, one of them a white dove: the image of the poet, observing the city.

References:

2016, Eindhoven VAM, nr. 135