Ilya & Emilia Kabakov
dal 30/1/2004 al 6/3/2004
Segnalato da
30/1/2004
Ilya & Emilia Kabakov
Sean Kelly Gallery (old location), New York
The Kabakovs' exhibition is comprised of two important large-scale installations and a series of new drawings. The installation in the main gallery, 20 Ways to Get an Apple Listening to the Music of Mozart, is an enormous dinner table with an apple in the middle and twenty place settings. The text to the right of each place setting explains one way to get the apple, while a drawing to the left of each plate illustrates the method.
20 Ways to Get an Apple Listening to the Music of Mozart
and Other Works
Sean Kelly Gallery is delighted to announce a major exhibition of new works
by Ilya & Emilia Kabakov. This is the Kabakovs' first exhibition since
joining the gallery. The opening of the exhibition will take place on
Friday, January 30th from 6pm until 8pm. During the opening the Kabakovs
will sign copies of their recently published two-volume catalogue raisonné
of the installations, Ilya Kabakov: Installations 1983 - 2000 published by
Richter Verlag.
The Kabakovs' exhibition is comprised of two important large-scale
installations and a series of new drawings. The installation in the main
gallery, 20 Ways to Get an Apple Listening to the Music of Mozart, is an
enormous dinner table with an apple in the middle and twenty place settings.
The text to the right of each place setting explains one way to get the
apple, while a drawing to the left of each plate illustrates the method. The
various ways to get the apple include schemes that are philosophical,
magical, psychological, and linguistic among others and could be perceived
as various conceptual modes of appropriation. The work could also be
interpreted as a commentary on unfulfilled promise and the irony of human
intellectual endeavors. Gallery 2 has been transformed into two rooms in a
children¹s hospital by an installation called The Children's Hospital. In
each room the sound of music and a story being told emanates from small
model theaters adjacent to the bed, each of which tells a different fable.
Designated one of the world's 10 greatest living artists by ARTnews, Ilya
Kabakov has been making installation art since 1984, becoming not only one
of the medium's most important practitioners but also one of its most
significant theoreticians and the leading figure of the Russian art movement
of the 1980s known as 'Moscow Conceptualism.' Kabakov was born in
Dnepropetrovsk, USSR in 1933 and lived in the Soviet Union until coming to
the West in 1988. Officially an illustrator of children's books, he was one
of the leaders of Moscow's unofficial underground art scene from the late
1950s on, and is widely recognized as one of the most important artists of
our time.
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: The Empty Museum will be on view at The Sculpture
Center in Long Island City from January 11 until April 11, 2004. Forthcoming
exhibitions include the Museu Serralves in Porto, Portugal; the Mori Art
Museum in Tokyo, Japan; MAK Museum Vienna, Austria; National Museum of
Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece; the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art,
Cleveland, Ohio; Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany and the Museum of
the 21st Century, Rome, Italy.
Image:
Ilya & Emilia Kabakov
20 Ways to Get an Apple Listening to the Music of Mozart
2001
installation
Please contact Amy Gotzler at the gallery (212.239.1181) or amy@skny.com for
more information. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from 11am until
6pm and Saturday from 10 am until 6pm.
Sean Kelly Gallery
528 West 29th Street
New York, NY 10001
Tel. (212) 239.1181
Fax. (212) 239.2467