Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid-Lenin Taking a Taxi
‘Throughout the 1970s, Komar & Melamid also worked in a style they
called “Post-Art,” pioneering the use of multi-stylistic images,
prefiguring the eclectic combination of styles in post-modernism,
which became popular in the 1980s. They collaborated on various
conceptual projects, ranging from painting and performance to
installation, public sculpture, photography, music, and poetry. In one
such performance, they established a corporation, Komar & Melamid,
Inc., that had as its purpose “the buying and selling of human souls.”
They bought several hundred souls, including Andy Warhol’s (who sold
it to them for free), which was smuggled into Russia and then sold for
30 rubles.’
