Ilya Kabakov was replaced by an orientation

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Сообщение от Pavel; 2094221 '

so it is firmly rooted his thrusts, and perceived it as chernukha.

"Jerks," as you put it - the everyday life of tens of millions of Russians, and not chernukha. <! - ~ 7 ~ ->
Catherine Tar:
  

So far in today's Russia the name of Ilya Kabakov often referred to as a common noun. People who never saw his installations, can be said about something that is before their eyes: Well, it's just Kabakov installation.

So in the XIX century, praised the natural landscape - "painting by Ivan Aivazovsky."

Thus, there is Kabakov's installation (or now, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov), and is "Installation Kabakov." The last is still with us, especially a little further away from Moscow. A dilapidated shack, decorated with a crown of light bulbs in the form of the inscription "USSR". Concrete bus stop with a mosaic on the side of the pioneers. Rustic bathroom with a five-pointed star on the door. Stand the safety instructions with pictures, in which the men in long trousers are doing something very useful. A long series of tables with green lights and red tape cards, scribbled in small handwriting. Satirical wall newspaper, which is attached to the cage with a live canary and a large rubber overshoe.

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In a certain sense of "Toilet" - not about the Soviet Union. Not about the past, but about the future, advancing precisely in 1992. The inhabitants of the "Closet" - not inventive Samodelkina: these are no more. They do not residents of the USSR. "Toilet" featured in the first post-Kassel in the summer - it is now quite clear, the installation of displaced persons, the sad reality of millions of refugees, even if they did not have anywhere to escape to become refugees from the Soviet Union. They have lost their inner connection to the Soviet era, they are strangers in this national monument white modernism. After all, in fact, does not look like there is a simple geometric and functional building in the naive, but it constructivism? New residents left their belongings in it, but their inner dialogue with this architecture is lost. They are not in style. And look at it as sad, as in 1917 it was sad to look at the soldiers, for the first time fallen into the palace and did not know, what are porphyry vase.

wrenching pity for the "toilet" if it arises here, cause now its inhabitants, but the building itself - frustrated, not seen by anyone modernist pavilion-like at the very concrete Soviet bus stops sixties. They had such a thirst for new, future, a desire to rejoin the international modernist project - and no one is a desire not to have heard, no one answered him.

Perhaps, in today's Russia, few will do "toilet" on your account. We are now through a rich country, even the poor live better. You can generally forget everything, like a nightmare - and poverty, and creativity, and independence from the life and freedom.