Michail Karasik

(1953 - 2017)

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Mikhail Karasik

Das Meerbusens Buch

The Gulf Book

St. Petersburg 1997

260 x 156 mm. Leporello

Edition: 5. Copy no. 2/3

 

Words from the “Puddle of the Marquis” (The Gulf

Book) is a short text by the artist referring to the

residential area near the Finnish gulf where he has his

apartment and studio. This area received the name

“Puddle of the Marquis” when the Russian fleet was

garrisoned there during the 19th century. The book

consists of seven cardboard panels upon which, on

each side, either photographs or text-pages have

been pasted. The panels are bound together with linen

and screwed inside two halves of a plastic oil canister

(similar to the cover of Snowstorm). Three glass tubes

are mounted to the inside of the “front-cover. These

contain material found on the shore of the Finnish

gulf: screws and bolts in the first, stones and beads in

the second, and oil in the third tube. Only three of the

advertised 5 copy edition were completed.