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Gagarin II
(Sphinx/31 January 1962)

2012
Sculpture
silkscreen on 35 copper elements (each element silkscreened individually,
each element approx. 30 x
30 x 0.3 cm, overall dim.
approx.  200 x 150 cm)
Edition 1/3 (+1 A.C.)

Photo: Marco Blessano;
© Vittorio Santoro

Installation view: Fondation d'Entreprise Ricard, Paris,
March 2012

“…the second of three works
not so much referencing than propelled by the ambiguous figure of Yuri Gagarin, the first cosmonaut… an image taken a year after his infamous orbital flight on the backdrop of an Egyptian sphinx… a fixed image of a motif of political propa-ganda, but also a puzzle, literally allowing for decomposition and re-evaluation…
a metaphorical game with factual minimalist allusions… ”

Vittorio Santoro,
Paris, March 2012