--- title: "162 - Death & Immortality, K+M 9/11-10/16 1993" date: 2017-08-21T18:02:00-04:00 author: Graham Murray canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/162-death-immortality-k-m-9-11-10-16-1993" section: Exhibition --- [![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg)](/) ![](/src/images/search.svg) View Artists Search Artists [Exhibitions](/feature_exhibitions) [Past Exhibitions](/past_exhibitions/) [Artists](/artist_overview) [News & Press](/news_overview) [Inventory](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery/artists) [Publications](/feature_publications) [Gallery Info](/about) [Contact](/contact) [![Facebook](/src/images/fb.svg)](https://www.facebook.com/RonaldFeldmanGallery/) [![Instagram](/src/images/ig.svg)](https://www.instagram.com/feldmangallery/) [![Twitter](/src/images/tw.svg)](https://twitter.com/feldmangallery?lang=en) [Artsy](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery) [Artnet](http://www.artnet.com/galleries/ronald-feldman-fine-arts/) 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](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/gil-yefman) [ ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg) ](/) Death & Immortality [Komar & Melamid](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/komar-melamid) Sep 10 – Oct 15, 1993 ![Km Lenins Mausoleum Project 1991 93 Save History](/assets/hero_images/_1600x800_crop_top-center_75_none/KM-Lenins-Mausoleum-Project-1991-93-Save-History.jpg) Komar & Melamid Lenin's Mausoleum Project, (Save History), 1991-93 Description Vitaly Komar & Alexander Melamid present two new installations, Death & Immortality. The Death installation consists of a sequence of six paintings in a classical Style which depict the suicide of an anonymous American man in an ordinary motel in New Jersey – an American crypt. Immortality, the second work, deals with the preservation of the ultimate Soviet icon, Lenin’s Mausoleum. On view will be a model of the mausoleum reconceptualized by Komar & Melamid, with 70 statues of Lenin (courtesy of Grazyna and Gabriel Meretik, France) as well as related multi-panelled paintings and written materials about the history of the Lenin cult. The artists are concerned about the gradual destruction of the country’s Socialist Realist monumental propaganda sculptures. [ ![](/src/images/down-arrow.svg) View Press Release ](https://feldmangallery.com/assets/pdfs/Komar-Melamid/1993/knmexh93_press.pdf) [ ![](/src/images/redirect.svg) View Artist ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/komar-melamid) ![Komar Melamid Suit In Chrome Yellow 1993 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Komar-Melamid-Suit-in-Chrome-Yellow-1993_1.jpg) Komar & Melamid Suit in Chrome Yellow, 1993 View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Komar Melamid Suit In Chrome Yellow 1993 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Komar & Melamid Suit in Chrome Yellow, 1993 (1 of 5) ![Komar Melamid Suit In Chrome Yellow 1993 2]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Komar & Melamid Suit in Chrome Yellow, 1993 (2 of 5) ![Komar Melamid Suit In Chrome Yellow 1993 3]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Komar & Melamid Suit in Chrome Yellow, 1993 (3 of 5) ![Komar Melamid Suit In Chrome Yellow 1993 5]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Komar & Melamid Suit in Chrome Yellow, 1993 (5 of 5) ![Komar Melamid Lenins Brain 1991 93]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Komar & Melamid Lenin's Brain, 1991-93 ![Komar Melamid Lenin With Skeleton 1991 93]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Komar & Melamid Lenin with Skeleton, 1991-93 ![Km Lenins Mausoleum Project 1991 93 Immportality]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Komar & Melamid Lenin's Mausoleum Project, (Immortality), 1991-93 ![Km Lenins Mausoleum Project 1991 93 Et Ceterarussian]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Komar & Melamid Lenin's Mausoleum Project, Et Cetera (Russian), 1991-93 ![Km Lenins Mausoleum Project 1991 93 Save History]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Komar & Melamid Lenin's Mausoleum Project, (Save History), 1991-93 ![Km Installation View Of South Gallery Death And Immportality 1993 3](/assets/exhibition_images/KM-Installation-view-of-South-Gallery-Death-and-Immportality-1993_3.jpg) Death & Immortality View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Km Installation View Of South Gallery Death And Immportality 1993 3]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Death & Immortality installation view ![Km Installation View Of South Gallery Death And Immportality 1993 2]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Death & Immortality installation view ![Km Installation View Of South Gallery Death And Immportality 1993 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Death & Immortality installation view ![Km Installation View Of South Gallery Death And Immportality 1993 3](/assets/exhibition_images/KM-Installation-view-of-South-Gallery-Death-and-Immportality-1993_3.jpg) ![Km Installation View Of South Gallery Death And Immportality 1993 2](/assets/exhibition_images/KM-Installation-view-of-South-Gallery-Death-and-Immportality-1993_2.jpg) ![Km Installation View Of South Gallery Death And Immportality 1993 1](/assets/exhibition_images/KM-Installation-view-of-South-Gallery-Death-and-Immportality-1993_1.jpg) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Km Installation View Of South Gallery Death And Immportality 1993 3]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Death & Immortality installation view ![Km Installation View Of South Gallery Death And Immportality 1993 2]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Death & Immortality installation view ![Km Installation View Of South Gallery Death And Immportality 1993 1]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Death & Immortality installation view Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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