--- title: 2019_K+M_ArtForum date: 2019-05-29T16:39:00-04:00 author: Cat Zhou canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-k-m-artforum-2" section: News --- [![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/) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg)Artists [ 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](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/shih-chieh-huang) J [ Simone Jones ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/simone-jones) K [ Brian Knep ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/brian-knep) [ Komar & Melamid ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/komar-melamid) [ Peggy Jarrell Kaplan ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/peggy-jarrell-kaplan) [ Vitaly Komar ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/vitaly-komar) L [ Kim Levin ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/kim-levin-) M [ McCarren/Fine ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/mccarren-fine) O [ Pepón Osorio ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/pep%C3%B3n-osorio) [ The Oakes Twins ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/the-oakes-twins) P [ Bruce Pearson ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/bruce-pearson) [ Panamarenko ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/panamarenko) R [ Fredric Riskin ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/fredric-riskin-1) [ Richard Ross ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/richard-ross) S [ Diemut Strebe ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/diemut-strebe) [ Edwin Schlossberg ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/edwin-schlossberg) [ Federico Solmi ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/federico-solmi-) [ Jason Salavon ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/jason-salavon) [ Todd Siler ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/todd-siler) U [ Mierle Laderman Ukeles ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/mierle-laderman-ukeles) V [ Sam Van Aken ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/sam-van-aken) W [ Allan Wexler ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/allan-wexler) [ Andy Warhol ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/andy-warhol) [ Clemens Weiss ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/clemens-weiss) [ Hannah Wilke ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) Y [ Gil Yefman ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/gil-yefman) [ ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg) ](/) [Komar & Melamid](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/komar-melamid) Critics Picks: Komar and Melamid, Moscow Museum of Modern Art ArtForum May 21, 2019 [Vitaly Komar](https://www.artforum.com/search?search=Vitaly%20Komar "Search Artforum.com for Vitaly Komar") and [Alexander Melamid](https://www.artforum.com/search?search=Alexander%20Melamid "Search Artforum.com for Alexander Melamid") may well have been the Soviet Union’s most infamous dissident artists. Unlike most nonconformists of the early 1970s who avoided Socialist Realism and the party’s mediated ideological aesthetics, they used communism’s stock images and phrases as fodder for their work. Curated by Andrei Erofeev and [Joseph Backstein](https://www.artforum.com/search?search=Joseph%20Backstein "Search Artforum.com for Joseph Backstein"), this retrospective marks the artists’ first joint project since the end of their collaboration in 2003 and highlights their absurd knack for pricking politics—and the art world—in just the right spots. Early on in this roughly chronological display is *Music Writing: Passport*, 1976, the performance that jump-started their international career. For this piece, the artists assigned a musical note to each letter of the Russian alphabet, then translated the rules and regulations restricting Soviet passport use into a musical composition. Their fascination with creating art by following a system connected them to the New York Conceptualists, and in hiring musicians to perform the work simultaneously in twenty cities around the world, they mobilized the very protocols that restricted their travel. **[Read more here.](https://feldmangallery.com/index.php/admin/entries/news/new)** Related News & Press May 24, 2019 [ ![Hear 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Hear_1_190528_192341.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-wexler-north-forker-zaweski) May 24, 2019 North Forker [Allan Wexler](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/allan-wexler) [East End Arts presents ‘Detour’ exhibit at multiple North Fork locations](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-wexler-north-forker-zaweski) May 23, 2019 [ ![Solm April Pre Opening 2019 Ds02 006 1 1](/assets/exhibition_images/SOLM_April_Pre-Opening_2019DS02-006-1_1.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-schlossberg-new-york-post-weiss) May 23, 2019 New York Post [Edwin Schlossberg](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/edwin-schlossberg) [Statue of Liberty Museum lets you check her out from head to toe](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-schlossberg-new-york-post-weiss) May 23, 2019 [ ![Van Aken Tree Of 40 Fruit](/assets/exhibition_images/Van-Aken-Tree-of-40-Fruit_190528_162257.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-van-aken-star-gazette-murray) May 23, 2019 Star Gazette [Sam Van Aken](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/sam-van-aken) [Rockwell Museum in Corning unveils first living display, 'Tree of 40 Fruit'](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-van-aken-star-gazette-murray) May 22, 2019 [ ![Van Aken Tree Of 40 Fruit The Michigan Trees 2016 Installation View05](/assets/exhibition_images/Van-Aken-Tree-of-40-Fruit-The-Michigan-Trees-2016-installation-view05_190528_161521.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-vanaken-mytwintiers-stockburger) May 22, 2019 My Twin Tiers [Sam Van Aken](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/sam-van-aken) [Rockwell Museum unveils unique piece of art](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-vanaken-mytwintiers-stockburger) [See All Press ](https://feldmangallery.com/news_overview) Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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