Alexander Brodsky was born in 1955 in Moscow, where he lives and works.

Ilya Utkin was born in 1955 in Moscow, where he lives and works.

The imaginary architectures of Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin rethink the city as a dream landscape, blending memories of the past with visions for the future.

From the early 1980s, Brodsky and Utkin collaborated primarily on etchings, working on each copper plate for years. Their dense style of engraving emulates the antique appearance of prints from the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries.

The etchings in this display are all taken from their Projects portfolio (1980-90) and draw upon a variety of architectural, literary and visual sources, from classical mythology to science fiction. They depict absurd proposals and fictional cityscapes as eclectic mixes of ancient mausoleums, early industrial structures, neoclassical utopias and constructivist towers. 

Brodsky and Utkin's work uses light and dark tone, called chiaroscuro.

These etching pieces remind me of another artists work called Piranesi, their work connects in light and tone.