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Ben Uri is honoured to launch the world tour of this seminal monumental installation of Yalta 1945 from 1986-87 and not presented in public since its display at Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York in 1990.

Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid both graduated from the Stroganov Institute of Arts and Design in Moscow in 1967 when they first exhibited together at Moscow’s Blue Bird Café. They are amongst the Soviet Union’s most important non-conformist artists: founding ‘Sots Art’ which merged Socialist Realism, politicized Pop, and Conceptual art. In their multi-stylistic works of ‘conceptual …