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Ilya & Emilia Kabakov |
Written 30 January |
Saturday 20 March, 10:00Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, 75003 [map]
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac presents a new exhibition of paintings by
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: The Flying Paintings, opening on Wednesday the 17th of March in the presence of the artists. This new body of paintings continues the work the Kabakovs have developed in the past decade with the notion of whiteness as a ground upon which fleeting images of the past appear like leaves floating in the wind across the surface of the paintings.
These large new works in both the horizontal and vertical format appear almost filmic in their dimension. The artists present us with a world gone white, a blank page of history or imagination upon which the Kabakovs catch – like frames from a home movie or photographs, moments of lost time, – scenes recreated from bits of propaganda from their Russian childhood. On the one hand, we have everyday life portrayed with a pictorial memory of someone looking back at family photographs, or posters from another era on the other.
These are paintings about time, space, the pictorial tradition of Russian painting, and how radical painting can often take the subliminal route to entice and satisfy the eye. During the month of February, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov will bring Peter Eötvösʼs opera to life with their imaginative installation of sculptures for 'The Tragedy of the Devil', at the National Theatre in Munich. They will be showing the preparatory drawings in the galleryʼs Project Space.
| What: | Ilya & Emilia Kabakov |
| When: | Saturday 20 March, 10:00 |
| Where: | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, 7 Rue Debelleyme 75003 [map] |
| Transport: | Filles Du Calvaire |
| Cost: | 0EUR |
| Phone: | 01 42 72 99 00 |
| Email: | galerie@ropac.net |
| Web: | www.ropac.net |
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