[Missis X und Katze (Collective pseudonim)], performance artist, poet,essayist Shurts [Schurz], Barbara, artist,book designer	Prodelka v Ermitazhe. M., 'Gileia', 2011. [96 p.]	€40,00

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Small 8 vo, very attractive publisher´s covers designed by Barbara Schurz. FINE.AUTOGRAPHED AND NUMBERED BY Alexander Brenner.Another copy, not autographed -- 15.00 € Alexander Davidovich Brener was born in 1957 in Alma-Ata. He is a Russian-Jewish performance artist, a self-described political activist, poet and essayist. He is considered as one of the main figures of Moscow Actionism along with Oleg Kulik.Brenner is the head of 'Neoism' art movement in Russia.He is an active member in 'Moscow Actionism' and 'Actionism' art movements.Pussy Riot, a Russian feminist punk-rock collective based in Moscow, was influenced by Alexander Brenner´s art ideology and his public art performances. His performances of note include defecating in front of a painting by Vincent Van Gogh at the Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, having sex on city streets, and vandalizing art work.He was jailed in 1997 for painting a green dollar sign on Kazimir Malevich's painting Suprematisme.In the court case Brener said in his defense:' The cross is a symbol of suffering, the dollar sign a symbol of trade and merchandise. On humanitarian grounds are the ideas of Jesus Christ of higher significance than those of the money. What I did was not against the painting. I view my act as a dialogue with Malevich.' He was sentenced to five months in prison, where he wrote 'Obossani pistolet'. In the text he explains his beliefs and summarizes his actions. He co-wrote 'BUKAKA SPAT HERE', 'Tattoos auf Gefängnissen', and 'Anti technologies of resistance' with Barbara Schurz, Austrian artist, essayist and book designer.Brener is mentioned in passing in Stewart Home's novel Memphis Underground. Bibliography: Furzende Völker (2000); Tattoos auf Gefängnissen (2001), Bukaka Spat Here (2001)