best known as co-founder of the first working group of constructivists and author of the group’s agitational and theoretical texts, gan's own oeuvre was comprised of amateur performances and mass-media objects (texts, books, journals, and films). —kristin romberg, soviet art historian

 

[...] the same qualities of ephemerality and dependency that make gan's work resistant to art-historical analysis were also what made it representative of constructivism’s ambitions for a materialist approach to art. —kristin romberg, soviet art historian

 

Back cover of Engineering and Living magazine designed by Alexander Rodchenko and Aleksei Gan, 1925