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Ilya & Emilia Kabakov
ILYA & EMILIA KABAKOV: NOT EVERYONE WILL BE TAKEN INTO THE FUTURE 18 October 2017 – 28 January 2018 LARGE PRINT GUIDE Please return to exhibition entrance CONTENTS Introduction 3 Room 1 7 Room 2 23 Room 3 37 Room 4 69 Room 5 81 Room 6 93 Room 7 101 Room 8 120 Room 9 3 12 Room 10 5 13 INTRODUCTION 3 Ilya and Emilia Kabakov are amongst the most celebrated artists of their generation, widely known as pioneers of installation art. Ilya Kabakov was born in 1933 in Dnepropetrovsk (now Dnipro) in Ukraine, formerly part of the Soviet Union. When he was eight, he moved to Moscow with his mother. He studied at the Art School of Moscow, and at the V.I. Surikov Art Institute. Artists in the Soviet Union were obliged to follow the officially approved style, Socialist Realism. Wanting to retain his independence, Ilya supported himself as a children’s book illustrator from 1955 to 1987, while continuing to make his own paintings and drawings. As an ‘unofficial artist’, he worked in the privacy of his Moscow attic studio, showing his art only to a close circle of artists and intellectuals. Ilya was not permitted to travel outside the Soviet Union until 1987, when he was offered a fellowship at the Graz Kunstverein, Austria. The following year he visited New York, and resumed contact with Emilia Lekach. Born in 1945, Emilia trained as a classical pianist at Music College in Irkutsk, and studied Spanish Language and Literature at Moscow University before emigrating to the United States in 1973. -
Sculptor Nina Slobodinskaya (1898-1984)
1 de 2 SCULPTOR NINA SLOBODINSKAYA (1898-1984). LIFE AND SEARCH OF CREATIVE BOUNDARIES IN THE SOVIET EPOCH Anastasia GNEZDILOVA Dipòsit legal: Gi. 2081-2016 http://hdl.handle.net/10803/334701 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.ca Aquesta obra està subjecta a una llicència Creative Commons Reconeixement Esta obra está bajo una licencia Creative Commons Reconocimiento This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence TESI DOCTORAL Sculptor Nina Slobodinskaya (1898 -1984) Life and Search of Creative Boundaries in the Soviet Epoch Anastasia Gnezdilova 2015 TESI DOCTORAL Sculptor Nina Slobodinskaya (1898-1984) Life and Search of Creative Boundaries in the Soviet Epoch Anastasia Gnezdilova 2015 Programa de doctorat: Ciències humanes I de la cultura Dirigida per: Dra. Maria-Josep Balsach i Peig Memòria presentada per optar al títol de doctora per la Universitat de Girona 1 2 Acknowledgments First of all I would like to thank my scientific tutor Maria-Josep Balsach I Peig, who inspired and encouraged me to work on subject which truly interested me, but I did not dare considering to work on it, although it was most actual, despite all seeming difficulties. Her invaluable support and wise and unfailing guiadance throughthout all work periods were crucial as returned hope and belief in proper forces in moments of despair and finally to bring my study to a conclusion. My research would not be realized without constant sacrifices, enormous patience, encouragement and understanding, moral support, good advices, and faith in me of all my family: my husband Daniel, my parents Andrey and Tamara, my ount Liubov, my children Iaroslav and Maria, my parents-in-law Francesc and Maria –Antonia, and my sister-in-law Silvia. -
Museological Unconscious VICTOR TUPITSYN Introduction by Susan Buck-Morss and Victor Tupitsyn the Museological Unconscious
The Museological Unconscious VICTOR TUPITSYN introduction by Susan Buck-Morss and Victor Tupitsyn The Museological Unconscious VICTOR TUPITSYN The Museological Unconscious VICTOR TUPITSYN Communal (Post)Modernism in Russia THE MIT PRESS CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS LONDON, ENGLAND © 2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. MIT Press books may be purchased at special quantity discounts for business or sales promotional use. For information, please email special_sales@ mitpress.mit .edu or write to Special Sales Department, The MIT Press, 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02142. This book was set in Sabon and Univers by Graphic Composition, Inc., Bogart, Georgia. Printed and bound in Spain. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Tupitsyn, Viktor, 1945– The museological unconscious : communal (post) modernism in Russia / Victor Tupitsyn. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-262-20173-5 (hard cover : alk. paper) 1. Avant-garde (Aesthetics)—Russia (Federation) 2. Dissident art—Russia (Federation) 3. Art and state— Russia (Federation) 4. Art, Russian—20th century. 5. Art, Russian—21st century. I. Title. N6988.5.A83T87 2009 709.47’09045—dc22 2008031026 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To Margarita CONTENTS PREFACE ix 1 Civitas Solis: Ghetto as Paradise 13 INTRODUCTION 1 2 Communal (Post)Modernism: 33 SUSAN BUCK- MORSS A Short History IN CONVERSATION 3 Moscow Communal Conceptualism 101 WITH VICTOR TUPITSYN 4 Icons of Iconoclasm 123 5 The Sun without a Muzzle 145 6 If I Were a Woman 169 7 Pushmi- pullyu: 187 St. -
The Bosnian Case: Art, History and Memory
The Bosnian Case: Art, History and Memory Elmedin Žunić ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3694-7098 Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy The University of Melbourne Faculty of Fine Arts and Music July 2018 Abstract The Bosnian Case: Art, History and Memory concerns the representation of historic and traumatogenic events in art through the specific case of the war in Bosnia 1992-1995. The research investigates an aftermath articulated through the Freudian concept of Nachträglichkeit, rebounding on the nature of representation in the art as always in the space of an "afterness". The ability to represent an originary traumatic scenario has been questioned in the theoretics surrounding this concept. Through The Bosnian Case and its art historical precedents, the research challenges this line of thinking, identifying, including through fieldwork in Bosnia in 2016, the continuation of the war in a war of images. iii Declaration This is to certify that: This dissertation comprises only my original work towards the PhD except where indicated. Due acknowledgement has been made in the text to all other material used. This dissertation is approximately 40,000 words in length, exclusive of figures, references and appendices. Signature: Elmedin Žunić, July 2018 iv Acknowledgements First and foremost, my sincere thanks to my supervisors Dr Bernhard Sachs and Ms Lou Hubbard. I thank them for their guidance and immense patience over the past four years. I also extend my sincere gratitude to Professor Barbara Bolt for her insightful comments and trust. I thank my fellow candidates and staff at VCA for stimulating discussions and support. -
Detki V Kletke: the Childlike Aesthetic in Soviet Children's Literature and Unofficial Poetry
Detki v kletke: The Childlike Aesthetic in Soviet Children's Literature and Unofficial Poetry The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters Citation Morse, Ainsley. 2016. Detki v kletke: The Childlike Aesthetic in Soviet Children's Literature and Unofficial Poetry. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Citable link http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493521 Terms of Use This article was downloaded from Harvard University’s DASH repository, and is made available under the terms and conditions applicable to Other Posted Material, as set forth at http:// nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:dash.current.terms-of- use#LAA Detki v kletke: The Childlike Aesthetic in Soviet Children’s Literature and Unofficial Poetry A dissertation presented by Ainsley Elizabeth Morse to The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the subject of Slavic Languages and Literatures Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts April 2016 © 2016 – Ainsley Elizabeth Morse. All rights reserved. Dissertation Advisor: Professor Stephanie Sandler Ainsley Elizabeth Morse Detki v kletke: The Childlike Aesthetic in Soviet Children’s Literature and Unofficial Poetry Abstract Since its inception in 1918, Soviet children’s literature was acclaimed as innovative and exciting, often in contrast to other official Soviet literary production. Indeed, avant-garde artists worked in this genre for the entire Soviet period, although they had fallen out of official favor by the 1930s. This dissertation explores the relationship between the childlike aesthetic as expressed in Soviet children’s literature, the early Russian avant-garde and later post-war unofficial poetry. -
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art Presents: Kholin and Sapgir
GARAGE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART PRESENTS: KHOLIN AND SAPGIR. MANUSCRIPTS May 20–August 13, 2017 Free Admission This summer, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art presents an exhibition of documents relating to the poetry of Igor Kholin (1920–1999) and Genrikh Sapgir (1928–1999), offering fresh insight into the work of two pioneers of Soviet nonconformist literature. Their names are often encountered together: in literary analysis, in publications on Russian contemporary art, and on children’s book shelves. Kholin and Sapgir met in 1952 and became close allies. Both were members of the first postwar unofficial community of artists and poets, known as the Lianozovo group, and pupils of its leader, artist Evgeny Kropivnitsky. They worked alongside some of the key names in Russian postwar art, including Oskar Rabin, Lydia Masterkova, and Vladimir Nemukhin. Bohemians of the 1960s and 1970s, their avant-garde poetry was unpublishable until the advent of perestroika. They were heroes of the literary underground, pioneers of samizdat, and featured in the first issue of the samizdat poetry journal Sintaksis, published by Alexander Ginsburg in 1959. Both combined an innovative style of writing with a strong commitment to truth, and a genuine interest in the life of ordinary people. They fused expressionism and realism, with an acute sense of the tragedy of the everyday and the poetics of the absurd. Their funny and moving “barracks poetry” quickly became part of Soviet folklore, often quoted by people who had never read the original texts. Kholin and Sapgir led a double life typical of nonconformist writers and artists of the post-Stalin era: showing their work only to a small audience of friends and admirers, they took odd jobs to make a living. -
The Institute of Modern Russian Culture
THE INSTITUTE OF MODERN RUSSIAN CULTURE AT BLUE LAGOON NEWSLETTER No. 62, August, 2011 IMRC, Mail Code 4353, USC, Los Angeles, Ca. 90089‐4353, USA Tel.: (213) 740‐2735 Fax: (213) 740‐8550; E: [email protected] website: hp://www.usc.edu./dept/LAS/IMRC STATUS This is the sixty-second biannual Newsletter of the IMRC and follows the last issue which appeared in February, 2011. The information presented here relates primarily to events connected with the IMRC during the spring and summer of 2011. For the benefit of new readers, data on the present structure of the IMRC are given on the last page of this issue. IMRC Newsletters for 1979-2010 are available electronically and can be requested via e-mail at [email protected]. A full run can be supplied on a CD disc (containing a searchable version in Microsoft Word) at a cost of $25.00, shipping included (add $5.00 for overseas airmail). RUSSIA To those who remember the USSR, the Soviet Union was an empire of emptiness. Common words and expressions were “defitsit” [deficit], “dostat’”, [get hold of], “seraia zhizn’” [grey life], “pusto” [empty], “magazin zakryt na uchet” [store closed for accounting] or “na pereuchet” [for a second accounting] or “na remont” (for repairs)_ or simply “zakryt”[closed]. There were no malls, no traffic, no household trash, no money, no consumer stores or advertisements, no foreign newspapers, no freedoms, often no ball-point pens or toilet-paper, and if something like bananas from Cuba suddenly appeared in the wasteland, they vanished within minutes. -
IRINA KORINA: “I Am Interested in How to Make Work That Joins Memories, Nostalgia, and Architecture
SUMMER 2017 EXHIBITION SEASON IRINA KORINA: “I am interested in how to make work that joins memories, nostalgia, and architecture. For me, ultimately, Congo Art Works: it’s about a Popular Painting transformation /PAGE 4 of the hierarchy Raymond Pettibon. The Cloud of of values.” Misreading /PAGE 6 David Adjaye: Form, Heft, Material /PAGE 12 Kholin and Sapgir. Manuscripts /PAGE 14 Bone Music. An Interview with Stephen Coates /PAGE 15 Irina Korina: The Tail Wags the Comet /PAGE 3 www.garagemca.org 2 EDITORIAL Welcome! Dear Garage visitor, Dasha Zhukova, Anton Belov, Founder, Garage Museum Director, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art of Contemporary Art his is the third edition of Garage Gazette, an hether you are at Garage for the first time to the collector and chronicler of Moscow underground annual publication which provides information or a regular visitor, I’d like to welcome art Leonid Talochkin and the artist Viktor Pivovarov. The about the Museum’s summer season and gives you to the Museum, which has become an Archive is accessible to the general public—we even offer a sneak preview of what’s to come in fall. First, established landmark in Gorky Park since free tours—and we continue to curate exhibitions based Tthough, I would like to look back to the start of 2017 Wopening here two years ago. We are really excited about on our holdings. This summer you can see Kholin and and Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art, our summer season and hope that you will be too. Sapgir. Manuscripts, which looks at the work of two lead- which brought together works by over 60 artists and Since March, we have presented a specially-commis- ing poets of the Moscow underground with strong links to artist groups from across the country. -
Press Release
REGINALONDON 22 EASTCASTLE ST LONDON, W1W 8DE, UK T +44 (0)207 636 7768 WWW.REGINAGALLERY.COM VIKTOR PIVOVAROV PAVEL PEPPERSTEIN OPHELIA 6 APRIL – 19 MAY, 2012 OPENING: THURSDAY 5 APRIL, 6-8 PM Regina Gallery is pleased to present a two-person show featuring father and son a!ists Viktor Pivovarov (b. 1937) and Pavel Pepperstein (b. 1966). Conceived as two separate bodies of work, the exhibition includes new drawings, paintings and sculpture by both practitioners, taking as their shared sta!ing point scenes from the life of Ophelia and the 19th Century model and muse Elizabeth Siddal. For their first exhibition together in London, Pivovarov and Pepperstein have chosen subjects that are both connected to the most English and literary of early avant-gardes - the Pre-Raphaelites. Ophelia is perhaps best known through John Evere" Millais' representation of her in the collection of Tate Britain. She is the lover of Hamlet, who drowns herself in Shakespeare's play when the Prince's family make e#o!s to misguidedly keep them apa!. The model employed by Millais to sit for his picture, meanwhile, was Siddal herself, who famously almost caught pneumonia whilst posing for him and went on to be an accomplished painter in her own right. For the current show, Pivovarov's works take the form of a series of visitations by Siddal to figures from literary history - including those authors who inspired her and her circle. Pepperstein's watercolours follow on the narrative of Ophelia, describing a group of fish-tailed mermaids, who ba"le against a troupe of angels, perhaps as an allegory of what might of happened to Ophelia a$er her death, or what she might imagine for herself in another life. -
COSMOSCOW 2019 PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS the Best of the International and Russian Art Worlds Are Coming to Cosmoscow 2019
For Immediate Release | Moscow | 8 August, 2019 Press contact: Elena Kurbatskaya | +79167989987 | [email protected] COSMOSCOW 2019 PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS The best of the international and Russian art worlds are coming to Cosmoscow 2019 The Fair will take place from September 6 to 8 with Privilege and VIP Preview on September 5 Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair announces the highlights of this year’s commercial and not-for-profit programmes. The seventh Cosmoscow Fair is taking place at Moscow’s Gostiny Dvor on September 6–8 with the Privilege and VIP Preview on September 5, supported by its long-standing partners: Main Partner Qatar Airways, Strategic Partner Credit Suisse, Automobile Partner Audi, Official Partner Ruinart, Jewelry partner Mercury, Beauty partner La Prairie and Official Hotel St. Regis Moscow Nikolskaya. Cosmoscow 2019 will welcome more than 60 galleries from Russia and around the world, including art market powerhouses such as long-time influencers in Giorgio Persano (IT), Galerie Frank Elbaz (FR), and Georg Kargl Fine Arts Gallery (AT); alongside a more recent generation of players in Emanuel Layr (AT/IT); Peres Projects Gallery (DE), and Temnikova & Kasela (EE). Margarita Pushkina, Founding Director of Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair and Founder of Cosmoscow Foundation for Contemporary Art, said: “This year, we are happy to welcome an impressive number of high-caliber international participants. This proves that our strong belief and investment in the development of the Fair as an international platform are paying off. We are encouraged by the continued support of our long-standing and new partners. It is gratifying to note that the circle of like-minded people and institutions united around Cosmoscow grows with each passing year. -
Transition in Post-Soviet Art
Transition in Post-Soviet Art: “Collective Actions” Before and After 1989 by Octavian Eșanu Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Kristine Stiles, Supervisor ___________________________ Fredric Jameson ___________________________ Patricia Leighten ___________________________ Pamela Kachurin ___________________________ Valerie Hillings Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies in the Graduate School of Duke University 2009 ABSTRACT Transition in Post-Soviet Art: “Collective Actions” Before and After 1989 by Octavian Eșanu Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Kristine Stiles, Supervisor ___________________________ Fredric Jameson ___________________________ Patricia Leighten ___________________________ Pamela Kachurin ___________________________ Valerie Hillings An abstract of a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Philosophy in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies in the Graduate School of Duke University 2009 Copyright by Octavian Eșanu 2009 ABSTRACT For more than three decades the Moscow-based conceptual artist group “Collective Actions” has been organizing actions. Each action, typically taking place at the outskirts of Moscow, is regarded as a trigger for a series of intellectual -
1 Life Between Two Panels Soviet Nonconformism in the Cold War Era
Life Between Two Panels Soviet Nonconformism in the Cold War Era DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Clinton J. Buhler, M.A. Graduate Program in History of Art * * * * * The Ohio State University 2013 Dissertation Committee: Dr. Myroslava M. Mudrak, Advisor Dr. Kris Paulsen Dr. Jessie Labov Dr. Aron Vinegar 1 Copyright by Clinton J. Buhler 2013 2 Abstract Beneath the façade of total conformity in the Soviet Union, a dynamic underground community of artists and intellectuals worked in forced isolation. Rejecting the mandates of state-sanctioned Socialist Realist art, these dissident artists pursued diverse creative directions in their private practice. When they attempted to display their work publicly in 1974, the carefully crafted façade of Soviet society cracked, and the West became aware of a politically subversive undercurrent in Soviet cultural life. Responding to the international condemnation of the censorship, Soviet officials allowed and encouraged the emigration of the nonconformist artists to the West. This dissertation analyzes the foundation and growth of the nonconformist artistic movement in the Soviet Union, focusing on a key group of artists who reached artistic maturity in the Brezhnev era and began forging connections in the West. The first two chapters of the dissertation center on works that were, by and large, produced before emigration to the West. In particular, I explore the growing awareness of artists like Oleg Vassiliev of their native artistic heritage, especially the work of Russian avant-garde artists like Kazimir Malevich. I look at how Vassiliev, in a search for an alternative form of expression to the mandated form of art, took up the legacy of nineteenth-century Realism, avant-garde abstraction, and Socialist Realism.