Dmitry Babenko - The Utopian Libraries / Дмитрий Бабенко - Утопические библиотеки

An “endless” project of ‘The Utopian Libraries’ has begun from the stamps of non-existent libraries. They were stamped on the Artist’s Books in order to add new dimensions to them. I glued the library cards in the books and stamped them with the libraries’ stamps. The descriptions of every stamp are published in the internet.
At that time I was making the Artist’s books incorporating the idea which can be described in short words as “museification of everything”. These were the books imitating scientific literature and reference books – atlases, handbooks on anatomy, “astronomies”, directories of birds, fishes etc.

- Dmitry Babenko.

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Dmitry Babenko - It should be read

"It should be read" is a book of perfectionist. It composed of erratas. 16х23х4 cm. 2012.

Dmitry Babenko - Presence of a Text-Personage in a Landscape

The book consists of 4 volumes.



Encashment bag used as a jacket.






Vol. 1. "Work", 60 pages, 36 x 24 cm, 2011

Dmitry Babenko - Postcards

15х21 cm, cardboard, gouache, stamps

15х21 cm, cardboard, gouache, stamps

Dmitry Babenko - Book about mushrooms

Dmitry Babenko. “Book about mushrooms”. 42x39cm. 40 pages. Mix media. 2011
Photos are clickable.

Dmitry Babenko - 50-rubles bond

New release is 50-rubles bond of Central Bank of Russia re-published by Dmitry Babenko. This publication is dedicated to the Knowledge Day. Nominal of the bond (50 rub. = 2,04 USD) is the reference to scanty salaries of Russian teachers.