Well-known Western artists create works for the Moscow's "Ikea"
Swedish furniture giant IKEA plans to exhibit in its new Moscow shop works world-renowned contemporary artists including Peter Doig (Piotr Uklanski), Jeppe Hein (Jeppe Hein) and Jim Lamb (Jim Lambie). Shop with the area of entire 260 thousand square meters (two airport "Domodedovo"), starting in 2012. It will become part of the shopping center "MEGA Teply Stan».
According to designer Simon Dance (Simon Dance), collaborator with Ikeey "from 2007, the company wants to create a place where the will culture and commerce, and entertainment. There can be not only the purchase of furniture and admire the installation, but also to make purchases in other stores, dine at restaurants and skating. Main objective - to equip the space where people would like to spend their free time.
Dance argues that he was "a big fan of public art." The idea to put in "Ikee" art objects was born to him after visiting the exhibition in the open air, set up in the castle Sadeli (the English county of Gloucestershire). They exhibited a sculpture by contemporary artists. "The most important thing for us - it is human interaction with art and visitors at the exhibition was a very fun and interesting».
Exposition in Sadeli called "Reconstruction" was organized by the former director of the gallery Gagosian and current coordinator of the Moscow "Garage" Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst (Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst) and curator of Hiscox Elliot MacDonald (Elliot McDonald). The latter said that "Ikeya" will order four or five pieces. One of them will be executed Russian artist.
Dane Jeppe Hein proposes to construct a mirror maze, which will be located in front of the façade. The length of the labyrinth will be 300 meters, and height - 24 meters. His Polish counterpart, Peter Doig is working on a huge iron sculpture, which will be perfectly clear c highway. A Scottish artist Jim Lamb wants to create a new version of his sculpture in the form of the well known "secret relationship" (2007), which so impressed Simon Dance at the exhibition "Reconstruction". It is expected that all these projects will take more than one million dollars.
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