Kabakov return home
ARTinvestment.RU   18 мая 2008

From 15 September to 14 October in Moscow will host a retrospective of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov

According to Emilia Kabakov, «The exhibition is of great importance. First, because of Moscow - this does to our city. Secondly, the first time in this city can be seen, our "total installation". In retrospective, we selected the most important work. Incidentally, this year will be twenty years since Ilya left Russia ».

The exhibition will display works made for hire have for collectors and museums in Ghent and Wiesbaden, in particular the installation of «Life flies» (1992), «The red car» (1991), «Toilet» (first shown at Documenta in Kassel in 1992), «Alternative History of Art» (2005) and «Gate» (2008).

The main theme of the artist going to permeate through all their work is their attitude to the Soviet Union. Ms. Kabakov said that they were for exhibition «chosen work, which we hope will help people think about our common past, but also about the present and future. We focused on the utopian and idealistic ideas that have always dominated in the Russian and Soviet mentality ».

is preparing for the exhibition catalog, four in Russian. They will include the texts of the dean of the School of the Arts at Yale University, Robert Storr, a professor at Yale University Jonathan Fainberg, art theorist Boris Groys and critic Catherine Degot. All these experts will take part in the symposium, which will be held at the Center of Contemporary Culture, 16 and 17 May, chaired by Amy Wall, researcher creativity Kabakova from New York. The symposium will bring together the Metropolitan Museum curator Gary Tinterou, director of Tate Modern museum Vichente Todoli, philosopher Mikhail Ryklin, art historian and curator Margarita Tupitsyn and art historian, University of Chicago, Matthew Jesse Jackson.

According to Ms. Kabakov, «at the symposium will make a very important statement».

The exhibition will support the Government of Moscow, the Art Fund «Moscow Biennale» Foundation and «modern city». Emilia Kabakov said that in organizing the exhibition was attended by representatives Guggenheim Foundation in Europe, Nikolai Ilyin, and Director of the State Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky. «They have shown us that now in Russia can make a big show and there are many people who are interested in this».

A lot of powerful sponsors, including the Moscow of Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation. 43-year-old Prochorov - Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC «Polyus-Gold», the world's largest gold mining company, has a state of 19.5 billion dollars and took 24-th line in the list of the richest people in the world, according to the magazine Forbes. The second was the main sponsor of Daria Zhukova and its Iris Foundation.

The other sponsor of the event - the company «ArtMedia Group», founded by Valery Nosov, and the Foundation «Modern City» Dilara Allahverdovoy and Claire Savoretti established to support the projects of young curators. The collection Allahverdovoy Dilara and her husband's work includes Kabakov. Director of Fund Mavika Teresa, who worked in 2004 on the Kabakov retrospective at the Hermitage, said: «I think the euphoria about the economic growth of Russia in the past nine years, could adversely affect the development of art, making it more glamorous. Kabakov retrospective will give us the opportunity to become familiar with all periods of his creativity, and provide food for discussion to help recall the true role of art ».

Source: www.theartnewspaper.com



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