IRWIN

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IRWIN are a collective of Slovene artists, primarily painters, part of Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK). They describe their own work as "retro-avant garde".

The group is emphatic about their work being collective rather than individual. The IRWIN artists never sign their work individually: instead, they are "signed" with a stamp or certificate indicating approval as a work from the IRWIN collective.

Although primarily painters, they have engaged in many collaborative works with other NSK art collectives, ranging from theater to music video. In 1992, in cooperation with Michael Benson, they created the performance Black Square on Red Square, in which a square of black cloth, 22 meters to a side, was unfurled on Moscow's Red Square, in homage to Kazimir Malevich and suprematism.

IRWIN received the Jakopic Award, the highest annual award in Slovene fine arts, April 21, 2004, in Ljubljana.

[edit] Books

• IRWIN (2006). East Art Map. The MIT Press. ISBN 1-84638-005-7.

[edit] References

• Monroe, Alexei (2005). Interrogation Machine: Laibach and NSK. The MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-63315-4.

[edit] External links

• IRWIN on the NSK State site.