Ilya Kabakov was replaced by an orientation

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Worried about the future of its many cloudy sortirnogo and utility installations, created under the approving nods of politicized employers, Ilya Kabakov has decided to hold on for an eternity, changing the orientation of the Baroque ...

Recently, Kabakov has lost interest in the light spectrum. Now his paintings are dark, like Caravaggio and other Baroque masters.

"Baroque for me the most important aspect of human culture, which is interesting relationship between space and figures, nervousness, understanding of the tragic fate of people in this world" - sadly says the maestro.

Installation as an art form, aged in his own words udozhnika disappoint him. After removal, they disappear in the vaults of the museum simply as a bunch of stuff that can be brought back to life only by their creator.

Personal exhibition in Hanover, Ilya Kabakov is unusual: it is not a single installation. And the main sensation is that the artist talking about his first-person. This writes Deutsche Welle:

What remains after the show? A painting. Installation dismantled and transported to the new premises, where it is, at best, will gather in its original form, and may well leave the dismantled piece by piece. The artist, who for decades created a spatial artifacts, can not, at some point not to think: what's left of his creations in the "history"? For 78-year-old Ilya Kabakov, this moment has come now.

The curator found the artist

Sprengel Museum Director Hanover accidentally discovered that titanium Moscow Conceptualism and one of the most famous in the West, the representatives of the post-Soviet art-bye to the installations, and began to paint intensively.

Intrigued by Ulrich Krempel decided to verify this first hand and raced in the USA. During the first visit was followed by several more, each time in the studio Kabakov on Long Island, there were new paintings. Thus was born the idea of ​​the exhibition in Hanover, which collected about 60 artifacts. "Ilya Kabakov. Return to painting" - the so-called exposure.

But her supervisor makes a return in question, because the graphics and art Kabakov created before, but only for installations, and in 2003 he only draws. Therefore, a retrospective exhibition and did not, and "progress report", said Krempel.

pictures of black spot

How old tapestries cover the walls of large-format black cloth Kabakov. But what he represents, and as depicted - is, of course, the 21st century - emphasizes Ulrich Krempel. This is a large painted collages, assembled from the lumen and the dark spots, human figures and interiors. Of the gaps, like the windows in the Soviet past, look out athletes in knitted caps, working in the cap figures of people with banners. And then a young Japanese woman and eastern parts of landscapes.

And here is the Emilia Kabakov and his wife. Find it on the canvas can not at once, if you tilt your head just right or left. Then the composition to the eye accustomed to take a vertical position. "The three pictures with a black spot" - a triptych, thematizes rewarding Kabakov Art Award in Japan Imperiale, one of the most prestigious awards, which is awarded on behalf of the Japanese emperor's outstanding figures of contemporary culture.

"The simultaneity of non-simultaneous, - says the curator of paintings Ulrich Krempel - speculative images and pictures of memories of youth, and all this is laid horizontally on its side, covered with white spots, in a strange structure." Black spots cover a large part of the canvas. Sometimes it's laced coat into the back Kabakov, accepting the award, and sometimes self-something black, reminiscent of the holes of the universe, the failures in the memory and the squares of Malevich.

Return to the past

Kabakov says that it has entered a phase of the retrospective reflection of a mature artist. And that means: an appeal to the past, with memory, a return to the old masters. In the case of Kabakov's a Rembrandt and Pontormo. Here is a series of paintings "look": close relatives Kabakov, which is no longer alive, look to the paintings of black holes, dark attentive eyes. People who are not much Kabakov had finished. On one of the paintings - four Ilya lap of his mother.

"Touching, disturbing pictures. They old artist, a lifetime representing other concepts at a very dare personal honesty, the openness and vulnerability in an artistic environment, ruthless to the manifestations of individual and sincere," - says Ulrich Krempel.

From the first person

Kabakov, hide behind fictitious characters, the Soviet people and talkative flown away into space dreamers, first remove the mask. According Krempelya because he is "forgiven."

Farewell to melancholy, but not sad. This is particularly noticeable in the hall, where hung a series of paintings "Flying." Written with ironic referring to Cezanne, which in Soviet times, frightened painters, fragments of landscapes in the impressionist colors of light glide and hover over the canvas. Paintings in paintings removed from us, slowly dissolve as the squares of Malevich in space. Fragments of the Soviet past fly into space, as white as the light of mystical iconography.

And in the next room on the canvas - the grandchildren, the scenes of family life and the memories of the visit to Japan. And all this in the style of Netherlandish painting of the 17th century. A close - closed the door. Visitors now and then try to open it, says curator Ulrich Krempel. But behind it nothing but death.

Reaching a certain age, you start to think about infinity. Thoughtful and Kabakov. And his paintings fly into the same space, where in 80 years went to "man" in the apartment, the character of his famous Moscow installation.

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