
early staten island graffiti

Aid, Wall, New Brighton, 1978

Sec 1, Handball Court, Stapleton, Date Unknown
The Future Is Our Only Aim

The catalogue „The Future Is Our Only Aim“ by Vasil Artamonov, Alexey Klyuykov and Václav Magid has been just published.
V2 binding, 200 x 140mm, 100 fullcolor pages + 120 grayscale pages, issue of 800 pieces, all covers are originals.
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We are attracted to ruins of monuments not because of some kind of necrophilia, but because of a need to grasp the type of life energy that prompted the people of the past to try to become demi-gods – that is, to try to overcome themselves, their own personal limitedness, and become demiurges of a new reality. It is a paradoxical situation: to inquire into the possibility of the creation of a new form of the human world, we must turn to the past and question those who believed in the possibility so much that they actually tried to make it a reality. (…)
excerpt: Václav Magid, Memories, Prague: Phoenix 2076, The Future Is Our Only Aim.






