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SERGEI BUGAEV, AFRIKA: REBUS
(BUGAEV, SERGEI - AFRIKA). Bugaev, Sergei, Victor Mazin, Olesya Turkina & Dan Cameron. New York & Vienna, AUSTRIA: Avant Garde Moscow & Paul Judelson Arts, 1994. First Edition 1/500. 8vo. 1/4 Linen Over Boards. Artist's Book. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 47 + 47pp + xix, two 17 ¼ x 22 3/8" sheets printed recto only, neatly folded in eighths to make 5 ½ x 8 ¾", profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and Russian. Designed by Anna Brochet. This is an elaborately designed exhibition catalogue cum artist's book published in conjunction with a 1995 Austrian retrospective of the Russian contemporary artist Afrika (né Sergei Bugaev). Bound into heavy, gilt-embossed grey chipboard covers is a bi-lingual catalogue reminiscent of El Lissitzky meets Rube Goldberg meets Ad Reinhardt's Art Comics along with two folded posters designed by the artist housed in an attached envelope. A most handsome example of the standard edition limited to five hundred unnumbered copies. 5-86394-052-2 Inventory Number: 013166