The Gnezdo Art Group of Donskoy, Roshal and Skersis and Its Action at the VDNKh Exhibition

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The Gnezdo group, 1976.

Gnezdo ("The Nest") was an art group founded by the artists Gennady Donskoy, Mikhail Roshal and Viktor Skersis, active from 1975 to 1979. The group took its name from the art action "Quiet! Experiment in Progress", staged at one of the first authorised exhibitions of unofficial art at VDNKh: the artists sat in a nest of twigs and down and incubated an egg.

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