The Eminent Direction of Thoughts
with Emilia Kabakov
YEAR: 2017
CATALOGUE NUMBER: 196
PROVENANCE
Collection of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov
EXHIBITIONS
Altes Gefängnis (Old Prison), Wittenberg, Germany
Luther und die Avantgarde: Zeitgenössische Kunst in Wittenberg, Berlin und Kassel (Luther and the Avant-Garde: Contemporary Art in Wittenberg, Berlin and Kassel), Altes Gefängnis (Old Prison), Wittenberg, May 19 to September 17, 2017
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Tomorrow We Fly, 17 Jul 2023 — 2 Mar 2024
Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy
Between Heaven and Earth, 13 Apr 2024 — 14 Jul 2024
DESCRIPTION
The chair is placed in the middle of the dark room, closer to one of the walls. The strings of different colors, connected to this chair, are stretched toward the ceiling of the room, like “thoughts” coming from the “invisible” person, who is sitting on this chair. The bare, transparent light bulb is hanging from the ceiling. The walls are painted dull gray.
The room reminds us either of a jail cell or a monk’s room, where a person spends his time contemplating life, death, religion.
Materials: Room size: 2.5 x 4 x 3 m Chair: high-back, natural wood color Strings: different colors, 5 mm in diameter Light: bare bulb, hanging on a cord from the ceiling, 25–49 watts, to be determined during installation.
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