The work’s grand subject and pompous gestural painting accentuates the kitsch factor – this could be a slightly psychotic version of the common hack-painted tourist souvenir. Similarly with High-rise on Raushskaya Embankment, painted with tempera on cardboard, which is evocative of an avant-garde architectural masterpiece, yet the painting’s visibly flimsy support, in contrast with the monumentality of its subject, also somehow chimes in with the irony of a failed utopia.