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Arraigada en un contexto soviético, su obra combina elementos de la vida cotidiana con una propuesta conceptual. SAF Art Spaces, Sharjah.
feb 2014Hasta el 23 de febrero de 2014, Sharjah Art Foundation presenta una exposición que rastrea vida y obra de Ilya and Emilia Kabakov. Nacidos en la Unión Soviética, su obra combina elementos de la vida cotidiana con una propuesta conceptual. A menudo arraigada en un contexto social y cultural soviético en el que vivieron antes de radicarse en los EEUU, adquiere un significado universal, investigando utopias fallidas alrededor del mundo.
Sede de exposición de Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: A Collective Memory es el Edificio I de los nuevos Espacios de la Sharjah Art Foundation. Las obras incluyen una serie de pinturas de Four Paintings About Freedom, Suprematist Painting which turn out great, With my respect to my Teacher Charles Rosenthal, así como dos instalaciones: Memorial de objetos inútiles y La alfombra azul.
Whilst describing Memorial to Useless Things, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov stated: "... because they are useless for whom? For somebody else. They always hold memories, and everything that is useless for somebody is always useful for another person. It is a memory, its part of your life. Nothing is useless in reality. We have another memorial, Memorial to Unknown People, so that's from the same category. It is a very deep idea of the memory because a huge monument is a memory of the society, of history now. But if we do not have personal memories, and memorials to personal memories, there is no history of personal life."
The Blue Carpet is an installation where visitors remove their shoes and enter a space that is covered by a large blue carpet with geometric designs. Small-scale drawings and texts in frames have been placed against the walls along the entire perimeter of the room. Visitors must sit or lie on the carpet in order to view these works, creating a sense of informality and intimacy. Ilya and Emilia Kabakov stated: "It is about two levels. Usually we look at the artwork at eye level. In this case it is on the floor, so in order to look at it you have to lie down and be on the same level as the art.You have to lower yourself down to be with it, you are still in the sky, but you see reality around you."
About the artists:
Ilya Kabakov
* 1933 Dnepropetrovsk, Soviet Union
After studying at the VA Surikov Art Academy in Moscow, Ilya Kabakov began his career as a children's book illustrator in the 1950s. He was part of a group of Conceptual artists in Moscow who worked outside the official Soviet art system. In 1985, Kabakov had his first solo exhibition at Dina Vierny Gallery, Paris. In 1988 he began working with his wife Emilia and from this point onwards, all their work was collaborative in different proportions according to the specific project involved. Today Kabakov is recognized as the most important Russian artist to have emerged in the late 20th century.
Emilia Kabakov
* 1945 Dnepropetrovsk, Soviet Union
Emilia Kabakov attended the Music College in Irkutsk in addition to studying Spanish and literature at Moscow University. In 1975 she moved to New York where she worked as a curator and art dealer.
The work of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov has been shown widely including in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Documenta IX, at the Whitney Biennial in 1997 and the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. In 1993 they represented Russia at the 45th Venice Biennale with their installation The Red Pavilion. The Kabakovs have also completed major public commissions throughout Europe and have received a number of honours and awards, including the Oscar Kokoschka Preis, Vienna in 2002 and the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, Paris in 1995.
Curadora: Hoor Al Qasimi
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov:
A Collective Memory
23 noviembre 2013 - 23 febrero 2014
SAF Art Spaces, Building I
Al Mureijah, Heritage Area
Sharjah, EAU
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