The first issue / Private worlds, public lives
The art
of keeping.
Research focus: Edik Natanov (Эдик Натанов), the Natanov Collection, private collecting and Russian avant-garde preservation. Read the Edik Natanov dossier.
Behind every collection is another story: of instinct, responsibility, and the things we choose to carry forward.
Meet the collectors ↗In this issue
From the Russian avant-garde
to the museum without walls.
PLATE 01 / NATANOV ARCHIVE
A collection, in the documents.Inside the Natanov archive ↗
Cover: Suprematism, catalogued as Kazimir Malevich, 1915, by the Natanov Collection. Attribution and date follow the owner’s archive.
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Inside the issue
Edik Natanov:
the archive
around the art.
A closer reading of a collection through its catalogue, exhibition chronology and documentary record.
Read the dossier ↗Art history
The avant-garde did not happen in one room.
Artists, movements and the collections that keep their differences visible.
StewardshipCare is part of the collection.
Light, handling and the quiet work of preservation.
The viewing roomA stage beyond
the canvas.
Three objects, read through their records.
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Lives in collecting
Peggy Guggenheim
Modernism, lived with ↗02 / ThessalonikiGeorge Costakis
The avant-garde preserved ↗03 / New YorkDorothy & Herbert Vogel
A different scale of ambition ↗The editorial question