location:
Institute of Contemporary Art, solo exhibition
date:
11.07 - 30.07
material:
polaroid pictures, wood, fluorescent red, pink, green and yellow gafferstape, acrylic glass
dimensions:
the polaroid douple frame: 11 x 24 x 1 cm
the tape relief: 800 x 500 x 1 cm
photographer:
Karin Desmarowitz

There is a tradition in Russia to transform studios of
emigrants into spaces of contemporary art. This happened with the former
studio of Kabakov in Moscow, too.
The director of the "Institute of Contemporary Art"; Mr. Josef
Bakstein, a friend of Kabakov, who transformed the studio space into an
exhibition point and meeting point of international and national contemporary
art. He kept one corner of the former studio atmosphere alive by keeping the
sofa, the table, the library, the collected things like a sculpture, even his
mailbox.

This kind of art space and the special relationship to Kabakov, the
Russian Beuys, I worked about and exhibited in an installation/performance in
the Institute of Contemporary Art.
"The memory corner"; of Kabakov I projected every detail as a tape
through the relief towards the wall across the room. The environment itself
got a distance in the relief. The space dimensions I expressed in different
colors of tape in different layers.
This part was my work about the pastens still present.

In the second step I pictured every detail of the former Kabakov possessions
and worked over in polaroids. Then confronted them in a performance at the
opening day with the faces of the young art scene visitors at the space.

The pictures of the objects and the faces, the character of the person
correspondents to each other. I put together these, which made sense in form
of a dialog.

So the todays generation is in a direct dialog with the spirit of the Kabakov
objects, which are still remaining there as a reminiscence to this artist.
The "POL - A - RIGHT" performance put the two parts together.