BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Utopian Projects

DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Utopian Projects:

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Description of Pictures: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Utopian Projects
September 7, 2017 – March 4, 2018
The exhibition, spanning 1985 through present day, features more than 20 of the Kabakovs’ maquettes, whimsical models, for projects realized and unrealized, including monuments, allegorical narratives, architectural structures and commissioned outdoor works. Opening nearly 30 years after the Hirshhorn hosted Ilya Kabakov’s first major U.S. exhibition, these intricate creations invite the viewer into their surreal world in miniature and offer a rare glimpse into the duo’s artistic process.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. UTOPIA_170929_001.JPG: The Utopian Projects Ilya and Emilia Kabakov
2. UTOPIA_170929_018.JPG: Considered the most important Russian artists to emerge in the late 20th century, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov (b. Dnepropetrovsk, Soviet Union, 1933, 1945, respectively) have spent the past few decades exploring the themes and aesthetic of utopia. Working collaboratively since 1989, the Kabakovs have produced a wide range of artistic projects that exist within that imagined context, including architectural maquettes, painting, drawing, sculpture, and large-scale installations. The models in this exhibition relate to large-scale public art projects, some of which were fully realized, while others were not. Though these models are meant to reveal the imaginative process through which the artists construct their full-scale installations, they all function independent of their larger counterparts, operating as miniature dreamscapes that conjure a shared idea of utopia. Incorporating aspects of literature, mythology, and history, these works speak to both the lived experience of a post-Stalinist Russia as well as an overarching understanding of the universal human experience. ...
3. UTOPIA_170929_027.JPG: The Pirate's Ship (The Devil's Rage) Model date: 2012 Project realized: Atlantic City, NJ, 2012; Redwood City, CA, 2017
4. UTOPIA_170929_039.JPG: How to Meet an Angel Model date: 1998 Project realized: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2009; Bielefeld, Germany, 2013; Linz, Austria, 2016
5. UTOPIA_170929_061.JPG: How Can One Change Oneself? Model date: 1998 Project realized: London, England, 1998; Manchester, England, 1998; Madrid, Spain, 1998-1999; New York, NY, 2000
6. UTOPIA_170929_082.JPG: The Large House of Humanity (Washington, DC) Model date: 1998 Project Not Realized
7. UTOPIA_170929_095.JPG: The Red Wagon Model Date: 2007 Project Realized: Dusseldorf, Germany, 1991; Vienna, Austria, 1994; Wiesbaden, Germany, 1999-2001
8. UTOPIA_170929_115.JPG: The Man Who Flew Into Space From His Apartment Model Date: 20115 Project Realized: New York, NY, 1988; London, England, 1989; Washington, DC, 1990, New York, NY, 1995-1996; Paris, France, 1997; Stockholm, Sweden, 1998; Marseille, France, 1999; Montreal, Canada, 1999; Barcelona, Spain, 1999-2000; Venice, Italy, 2000
9. UTOPIA_170929_127.JPG: The Toilet Model Date: 1992 Project Realized: Kassel, Germany, 1992; Ghent, Belgium, 1999
10. UTOPIA_170929_143.JPG: "There is no future will only repeat the past. Every time there is going to be an attempt by some generation to make a jump, each jump will carry with it something that has already happened." -- Ilya Kabakov, 2015
11. UTOPIA_170929_151.JPG: The Road of Life Model Date: 2005 Project Not Realized
12. UTOPIA_170929_165.JPG: The Five Steps of Life Model Date: 2000 Project Realized: Munich, Germany, 2010
13. UTOPIA_170929_200.JPG: "One of the most fascinating endeavors and states is the following: to be alive, but yet to not really be living -- not to participate in all of life, in all of its upheavals, but rather to be living as though 'late' and to see this whole life of yours somehow from the sidelines, from some height and even, if possible, even as though it had already been lived, as if you were dead (a strange and desirable combination). -- Ilya Kabakov, 2015
14. UTOPIA_170929_216.JPG: The Boat of My Life Model Date; 2012 Project Realized: ... hell, everywhere!
15. UTOPIA_170929_232.JPG: Paintings on the Floor Model Date: 1990 Project Not Realized
16. UTOPIA_170929_256.JPG: Toilet on the Mountain Model Date: 1992 Project Realized: Vassiviere Island, France, 1996
17. UTOPIA_170929_269.JPG: The Old Bottle Model Date: 1999 Project Realized: Jerusalem, Israel, 1999
18. UTOPIA_170929_285.JPG: The Fallen Sky Model Date: 2010 Project Realized: Geneva, Switzerland, 1995; Niewpoort, Belgium, 2006; Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, 2016
19. UTOPIA_170929_304.JPG: The carpet moved in the display
20. UTOPIA_170929_326.JPG: The Children's Hospital Extraordinary Pirouettes (Flying 'Figures') An Earthquake in the Seraglio The Old Staircase Model Date: 1998 Project Realized: Dublin, Ireland, 1999-2000; Milan, Italy, 2000; Bern, Switzerland, 2000, 2002
21. UTOPIA_170929_335.JPG: "At some point in everyone's lives we all want to escape from reality anywhere, somewhere. Very often our character of the 'little man' is compared to Gogol's 'little man,' but in our case, it is not just about better clothes, or a better job, as all these 'little men' want tin the literary tradition, but an escape towards utopia, which is absolutely disconnected from reality." -- Emilia Kabakov, 2015
22. UTOPIA_170929_350.JPG: The Largest Book in the World Model Date: 2015 Project Not Realized
23. UTOPIA_170929_367.JPG: Looking Up, Reading the Words... Model Date: 1997 Project Realized: Skulptur Projekte in Munster, Germany, 1997
24. UTOPIA_170929_386.JPG: Monument to Icarus Model Date: 1999 Project Not Realized
25. UTOPIA_170929_407.JPG: The Project for the Preservation of Natural Resources Model Date: 2012 Project Realized: Lake Baldeney, Essen, Germany, 2010
26. UTOPIA_170929_418.JPG: The Ship of Tolerance Model Date: 2005 Project Realized: ... everywhere ...
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