Sunday, September 17th
North Fork-based filmmaker Amei Wallach will introduce a screening of her film Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Enter Here, which the New Yorker called “A marvelous documentary” and the New York Times described as “a multifaceted portrait conveying the emotional urgency of the Kabakov’s work.”
The screening will be preceded by a brief presentation about what North Fork Contemporary is, and what we hope to accomplish going forward.
After the film we hope everyone will stay for a little festive food, drink, and conversation. . . and perhaps a surprise or two.
Location: The Jamesport Meeting House (1590 Main Road, Jamesport)
Time: 4PM to 8:30PM (Please RSVP to nfc.rsvp@gmail.com)
Please note: This is a free event. (However, donations in any amount will be enthusiastically and gratefully accepted!) North Fork Contemporary is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) corporation registered in the State of New York.
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.