It has become known for the September program «Retrospective» Ilya and Emilia Kabakov - chief artistic events

For the first time in Russia in this volume present the work of the Chief kontseptualista Ilya Kabakov - six self installations, shared the title «Retrospective». One might say, a festival dedicated to 75 Anniversary of the most famous and important Russian artists of the living.

Place Ilya Kabakov in the history of art and what he has done for the development of plastic genres, it's easy to equate the value of Solzhenitsyn and Brodsky in the literature or Richter and Rostropovich in the field of performing arts - the same sky-high level of skill, becoming symbol of the greatest achievements of modern civilization.

Triumphal return Kabakov, who works with his wife Emilia, cooked long and carefully. Curator «Retrospective» was made by Joseph Backstein, consulting curator, Robert Storr, a project coordinator - Marat Gelman.

Honored Artist

If the creative biography of Ilya Kabakov began in line with the official Soviet art, but now, its 75 th anniversary, Ilya I. surely would have been the People's Artist of the USSR, for example, earned some of Kabardino-Balkaria, a winner of several state and a Lenin Prize, member of presidium of the Supreme Council and a member of (at least a candidate for membership) of the CPSU Central Committee, ordenonostsem, the first he would have given the order «Honor», and then the Order of Friendship of Peoples.

But fate ordered otherwise. Prior to his emigration from the Soviet Union in 1987 (Emilia goes to Israel in the 1973-meters, moved to New York in 1975-m, where seven years of experience in curatorial projects), Ilya Kabakov, finishing Surikov College (1957), becoming one of the informal leaders of the Soviet underground art, the most important phenomenon, and over the inside of which is conceptualism, are grouped around the studio Kabakova on Sretensky Boulevard.

now and for many decades, namely, conceptualism, which left many of the classics of world art and Russian literature, defines the person and the depth of the domestic (and since the beginning of perestroika and the world), art.

Do not engage in direct confrontation with official power, Kabakov works on design of children's books he illustrated about one hundred «carnets-malyshek» and became a recognized leader in book design in the USSR. In parallel, creating chamber «albums», which developed the theme «mask» and «personazhnosti», held performances, designed first installation.

Once in the West, Ilya Kabakov has become a world-renowned artist, it is easy to include in the elite art world as a versatile master of classical type, which uses in his work achievements of modern civilization. Here in 1988 he makes his first envayroment (genre «total installation», and he invented). Here in 1989 he began working with his wife Emilia.

Achievements of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov recorded numerous exhibitions in the most important museums of the world, as well as awards, the honorary prize of the Venice Biennale (1993), Prize of Josef Beuys in Basel, the rank of the Order of the French beau fine arts and literature, an honorary doctorate at the University of Bern (2000) and many others. What is certainly not the Order «Honor» and not even the Red Banner of Labor, but also because something significant ...

six installations in the search for the author of

If a task in one day to see all six installations «Retrospective», represented a major art-world couple of art in Moscow on September, then you need to begin, of course, «Winery», which reconstructed the three most famous «total installation».

First, you will find in the room of white wines made in the spirit of the exhibition Ethnographic Museum «Life flies» and dive into the sound to the last detail civilization flies to have on the current influence of human destiny. Installation says, and most importantly, shows the achievement of the national economy in Muszyna Muszyna economics, finance and, of course, culture.

Next, you will find in the «Winery» copyright repetition «toilet», famous for Kassel «Document», 1992. Here, for the usual facade with the letters «M» and «M» is a common Soviet apartment. Sortirnye holes together with a simple square utensils.

Finish the visit «Retrospective» should be in the gallery Marata and Julia Gelman, where «The game of tennis» between Ilya Kabakov and his chief interpreter of Boris Groys transmitted to video monitors. And then, satisfied the immediate impressions of a collision with Muszyna reality of Soviet life and played in sortirnyh decorations, you will secure a lesson with the help of theoretical calculations, not only depicted on film, but with the help of tables, decorated with chalk on the black school boards.

After the outskirts of Kursk station should go to the backyard Novoslobodskaya. Here, in the recently refurbished garage houses the Center of Contemporary Culture «garage», adopted in its walls two of the most monumental total installation «Retrospective». First, the exact copy of «Red wagon», decorated with music, flags and banners, aspirations for the future, but without wheels. And secondly, «Alternative History of Art», built in the form of exposure of three fictional characters - однофамильца artist, avant-gardist the beginning of the twentieth century, Charles Rosenthal and Igor Spivak comes from the Ukraine.

get an idea of utopian spaces «garage», complete inspection «Retrospective» need them in the Pushkin Museum. Alexander Pushkin, which put the «Gate». Through the door, hastily brought down from the black board, you can get into a parallel space, in which 16 drawings and 12 paintings of landscape, changing depending on time of day. Last-art marina facilities and the eternal abode, is a museum in the genre of «the last work the artist» sums up the entire previous history of art, the results of which are «total installation» Ilya and Emilia Kabakov.

«Retrospective» will be open from September 15 to October 15.

17-18 September at the Center of Contemporary Culture «garage» a large international symposium «Post-war Russian Art: Aesthetics and Politics». Among the participants declared the world's art-value, well-known curators, art critics and museum stars: Robert Storr, Boris Groys, Matthew Jesse Jackson, Jonathan Feinberg, Harry Tinterou, Catherine Degot, Margarita Tupitsina, Sergey Gordeev, Lance Fung, Ebrahim Melamed, Amey Uoloh .

Source: vz.ru