Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, prominent artists of Russian origin, recognized as among the most important today, remind us through their works miracles exist, but you have to be very careful, keep the eyes peeled to find them. This was revealed in the exhibition Angelology: utopia and angels, which opened Wednesday at the Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso.
This is the first time that Ilya and Emilia Kabakov exhibit his work in Mexico, which was possible thanks to the enthusiasm of the gallery owner and promoter of contemporary art Nina Menocal, who had the support of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the Council national for Culture and the Arts and the Government of the Federal District.
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov In. Angelology: utopia and angels, 41 works created between 1994 and 2010, as part of the prolific output of this pair of artists who have occupied the main cultural venues in the world is. The exhibition, curated by José Manuel Springer, addresses the utopia as a possibility to register an ideal order, but also from the critique of a dogmatic imposition. The Kabakov make use of angels and their wings as metaphors of inspiration that can lead man to the completion or drop its ambitious ideals.
Inaugurating the exhibition, Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, president of the National Council for Culture and the Arts, noted that this is an exceptional example of the public to visit. "Several critics of contemporary art brought to Ilya and Emilia Kabakov as some of the 10 most important artists of contemporary creation. This exhibition meditating on angels in such a particular context as the Soviet utopia, now we can see how universal realism. "
The owner of Conaculta acknowledged that it was possible to bring this exhibition to Mexico because of the willingness of Kabakov and Nina Menocal effort. He also noted that it is a display that enables understanding not only the beginning of the century, but especially the work that developed in the twentieth century with two artists who lived capital moment in world history, which was the utopia of communism or Soviet reality.
"Socialist realism, which presents a part of the exhibition, I can not help but associate with this building of San Ildefonso, because some of the most extraordinary examples of the great Mexican mural painters of the twentieth century, in which there is a purpose diffusion of ideas, the revolutionary creed, in the socialist realism but takes another turn becomes a similar aesthetic form. so that this is a space that welcomes naturally this exhibition, "said Rafael Tovar y de Teresa .
Angelology is the study of angels, and their presence and their wings is linked historically with the knowledge, independence and democracy. These beings have historically represented those values from the Winged Victory mythical until endearing Angel of Independence in Mexico City. Alas symbolizing rise and fall, like the mythical Icarus.
The work of Kabakov, from the concept of total installation, creates an environment that achieves a special atmosphere, whose sense engages the viewer with their own experiences. "We try to produce an experience in the viewer. When a person enters a space the elements that surround it can acquire new meanings, different to the outside environment. It's a place built by personal experiences they need both the site visitor" creators have said.
The sample Angelology: Angels meets utopia and facilities, object art, photographs, facsimiles, drawings, prints on canvas and models produced between 1994 and 2010; addition to Arkchipov, Surikov the distressing and the Flying Komarov which may be handled by the public albums.
María Teresa Uriarte, coordinator of Cultural Diffusion National Autonomous University of Mexico, said that the experiences that line Kabakov projects not only make statements or visual chronicles one of the most complex and difficult moments of the twentieth century: the daily effects of a of the major ideological confrontations in the history of mankind, but learning that the distance of the bipolar world has enriched his creative work and the investigation of new courses for freedom, but always with the conviction that there is no future without a past and that culture is the only thing that makes us different.
"Few areas like art take the pulse accurately to reality, exercise criticism without fuss and are aware of the transformations of our time. This sample is a powerful allegory that allows us to identify and evaluate an essential and indispensable part of the human condition is found in the will and imagination, which are crucial in the search for better suction conditions for survival elements, "he said.
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov lived socialism in the Soviet Union and the construction of the communist utopia of State. From the opening and reforms in 1985, after decades of work underground in a movement of conceptual artists Ilya Kabakov emigrated from Soviet Russia in 1987, Emilia married in 1992 and began a new life in Europe West and later in the United States.
The Kabakov's work is a dramatization of personal artistic quest of a better life under a utopian regime imposed by the state. It also proposes a replica of that situation from the intelligence, sensitivity, power of imagination and interaction with different disciplines such as theater, literature, architecture and the visual arts.
Bertha Cea, executive coordinator of the Mandate of the Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, found that visitors understand the profound and sometimes subtle sensitivity of these two great artists of our time, who through ideas, concepts and representations thereof, afford able, although it's a small glimpse, just a glimpse, sometimes a little intrusive, a world where peace and hope to survive the hostility, chaos and depression.
At the opening of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov the sample. Angelology: utopia and angels also participated Maria Cortina, Director of Special Projects of the Ministry of Culture of the City of Mexico, the gallery Nina Menocal and Emilia Kabakov, who traveled to Mexico to be present in the sample and participate Thursday August 28, at 17:00 am in a conversation with Matthew Jesse Jackson and Jose Manuel Springer, in the Amphitheater of the Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso. Admission is free.
Kabakov's work the couple has been presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Documenta IX (1992); the Whitney Biennial 1997 and the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. In 1993 they represented Russia at the 45th Venice Biennale. In May 2014 they performed the great exhibition Strange City for Monumenta at the Grand Palais, Paris.
The Ilya and Emilia Kabakov exhibition. Angelology: utopia and angels, will be open from August 28, 2014 until January 11, 2015 In the Night of Museums, on Wednesday September 24 and October 29 at 20:00 pm Enter Here, directed by Amei Wallach, on the life and work of artists: Ilya and Emilia the film will be screened Kabakov.
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