DINO
Edition of 300 green cover + 30 special edition in red including unique stencil artwork in the box (signed and numbered by artist).
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Terrestrial vertebrates that first appeared during the Triassic period, circa 243 million years ago, and reigned on Earth throughout the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, were seemingly doomed to extinction and utter oblivion.
But this could not be further from the truth.
Dinosaur the monster emerged from the lost world only to get firmly stuck in the public mind and multiply in the wilderness of mass culture. The next thing we knew, dinosaurs transformed into an international symbol of good luck and joy. Dinosaurs claim world domination and have even encroached upon the meme territory. Once they get a toy dinosaur, children can easily do without real pets. The prehistoric reptiles shape tastes: they grace museum exhibitions, logos, speak every known language and, despite their air of menace, evoke genuine emotions that have been dormant for millions of years by gently and good-naturedly winking at us from the screen.
The fossilised raptors seem to have been deliberately put there to pander to artists and let their imagination blossom. Gosha Ostretsov acts as Steven Spielberg in one of these 'Jurassic parks' of his own making. He feels like an art world dinosaur, awoken and ready to pounce on the modern world and destroy it. All irony and teasing of the expert painter and comic illustrator turn into critique and self-criticism. The dinosaur undergoes the chaos of delirium and millstones of all the graphic techniques that Ostretsov has ever employed in his practice.
The graceful pen sketch alludes to a Baroque engraving, the tonal acrylic drawing serves as a tribute to classical and academic art, the stencils are dedicated to Banksy. Together, all these abstract reflections infused with double entendres make up the limited edition album Monster, a variation on the theme of the classic Livre d'artiste, traditionally sought after by collectors.
But perhaps this 'three-toed track' is an attempt at experimenting with zine culture...

by Evgenia Gershkovich