Saturday, September 23rd
An exclusive tour of the Kabakov studios. Emilia Kabakov has agreed to lead visitors on a rare tour of the studios in which Ilya made his paintings, and she and Ilya collaborated on the models for often monumental narrative installations in Germany, Austria, France, Great Britain, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Japan and the U.S. Visitors will be treated to Ms. Kabakov’s stories about the public art installations and museum exhibitions, and what it took to get them made.
The tour will begin at 2:30PM (?) and last an estimated hour and a half. Attendance is limited and will be determined on a first come, first served basis. Tickets are $100 a person and must be purchased in advance. Confirmations, directions, and tour details will be provided upon payment. Please note that tickets are non-transferable.
To reserve your place for the Kabakov studio tour, please send an email with your name and contact information and the names and contact information for any additional guests who you wish to register to nfc.studiovisits@gmail.com. We’ll email back your options for payment. You can also register and pay in person at the September 17th film screening.
Ilya Kabakov was a Soviet-born artist, who had almost never been permitted to exhibit in the USSR, burst upon New York in 1988 with “Ten Characters”, a walk-through installation of rooms in an imaginary communal apartment, each labeled with descriptions of the benighted characters whose personal environments reflected their attempts to cope with the absurdities of Soviet life. The exhibition was immediately dubbed a masterpiece and, in the years since, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov – his wife and partner in art – have exhibited their works in nearly every important museum in the world, while quietly making their home on the North Fork for over twenty years.