Following his enlargements of official

documents he now presents a personal portrait gallery

of the famous and infamous. In 15 portraits, colour

lithographs on primed canvas, he presents people (his

parents and grandparent and Etkind, Altman, Chagall,

Malevich amongst others) who were crucial to his

personal or artistic development. The canvas sheets

are bound in paper covered cardboards. On the cover

he shows smaller reproductions of the portraits placed

in the arcades of Gostini dvor, the merchant galleries

along Nevskii Prospect, as was the custom to honour

heroes in the bygone Soviet days. The 25 copy edition

has a cardboard slipcase upon which an enamelled

metal plate has been mounted.