Timur Kibirov

Кибирновый баян

Kibirov’s accordion

St. Petersburg 1994

236 x 225 mm. Leporello

Edition: 9. Copy no. 4/9

Kibirov’s accordion is a collection of poetry written by the

Moscow poet Timur Kibirov (1955). Karasik lithographed

the text in white on both sides of black paper. The

paper is harmonica folded in 16 parts (32 pages) with

half pages at both ends of the paper mounted inside

two cardboard sheets covered in red paper. The front

and back covers are lithographed in white and have

collage additions of fabric, leather, and buttons. These

are composed in such a way that they create the

appearance of a bayan, a Russian accordion. Karasik

kept in a box or instrument case that is closed by either

leather straps or bra straps. The inside of the boxes has

been decorated by a collage of photographs taken from

issues of the magazine Ogonyok from 1967.