ENJOY

Old man

Artists

Ginsburg Ian

Year2023
MaterialFiberglass, enamel
Size187 × 90 × 126 cm
Edition1 + 1 a/p
1 500 000 ₽
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Описание

By sorting through layers of bygone styles, Jan Ginzburg reconstructs an event that did not happen. Before us is a poetic evening by young Eduard Limonov. 
 

The guests include close people in various ways, from literary mentors (Evgeny Kropyvnitsky) to close friends (Vagrich Bakhchanyan), wives (Anna Rubinstein, Elena Shchapova) and sexual rivals (Viktor Shchapov). 
 

Starting from Limonov's main profession after moving from Kharkov to Moscow, Ginzburg restores trousers sewn by the young poet in a different material, reminiscent of Indian saris and American geometric abstraction of the 1970s. 
 

Limonov has New York, Paris, Serbia, Yeltsin's Moscow ahead of him, and events in which he played a consistent and unseemly role. Ginzburg's installation, however, invites us into the pure potentiality of the stagnation era and invites us to enjoy the play of quotations from artists of the era, both anonymous Soviet masters of the monument and “serious” sculptors: the bodies of the participants in the poetry evening are made up of torsos referring to Igor Makarevich and limbs modeled on the heroic anatomy of Ernst Neizvestny.

 

Text: Valentin Dyakonov