Lost Boys by Slava Mogutin
Book Launch
October 28, 2006, from 5-7 PM
Printed Matter, Inc., is pleased to present a book launch for Slava Mogutin''s Lost Boys on Saturday, October 28, 2006 from 5:00-7:00 PM. Lost Boys, Slava Mogutin''s first monograph, is a compelling collection of his photographic portraits and landscapes taken from throughout Eastern Europe over the past ten years- since he was exiled from Russia for "malicious hooliganism with exceptional cynicism and extreme insolence." Printed Matter is located at 195 Tenth Avenue.
A cross between porn and fashion, pop culture and marginal kink, Lost Boys is a poetic and sometimes raunchy journey into different obsessions and fetishes of the cosmopolitan urban youth culture. Crimean Rasta boys, Russian wrestlers and military cadets, German skinheads, and football hooligans are among the subjects of these incendiary but intimate portraits.
Slava Mogutin was the last political dissident from the former Soviet Union and the first ever to become a porn star. He has received both critical acclaim and official condemnation for his outspoken writing. Chased out of his country at the age of 21, he was granted political asylum in the US with the support of Amnesty International and PEN American Center. Mogutin is the author of seven books in Russian, and his writing has been translated into and published in six languages. His photography has been exhibited internationally and featured in such diverse publications as I-D, Honcho, Visionaire, Bound & Gagged, BlackBook, Playgirl, Butt, and Stern.
Two different limited editions of Lost Boys will also be available for order. Limited to 50 copies for each version, these editions are housed in a slipcase and contain an 8 x 10 c-print signed by the artist. Both limited editions are being sold separately for $300 each.
Lost Boys contains essays by Octavio Zaya and Dominic Johnson and is 144 pages (with 125 full color photographs). Lost Boys retails for $39.95 and is available at Printed Matter’s storefront and online.
For additional information, please contact AA Bronson, Director, at (212) 925-0325 or at aabronson @ printedmatter.org.
Printed Matter, Inc. is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1976 by artists and art workers with the mission to foster the appreciation, dissemination, and understanding of artists'' books and other artists'' publications. Printed Matter, Inc. has received support, in part, through grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Altria Group, Inc, the Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, the Canadian Consulate General and the Government of Canada, The Cowles Charitable Trust, the CRH Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Fifth Floor Foundation, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, LEF Foundation, Materials for the Arts, The Peter S. Reed Foundation, the Schoenstadt Family Foundation, The Starry Night Fund, The Roy and Niuta Titus Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and private foundations and individuals worldwide.