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Incident at the Museum of Water Music

Ilya Kabakov

Sep 11 – Oct 16, 1992

S. Kochelev: First Snow. At the Pioneer Sanatorium (1932/1992) by Ilya Kabakov

Ilya Kabakov

S. Kochelev, First Snow. (At the Pioneer Sanatorium), 1932, 1992

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Incident at the Museum or Water Music recreates two galleries of old master paintings from an unnamed, well-reputed museum. A potentially catastrophic leak in the ceiling provides an unexpected source of music in the form of dripping water and the sounds produced as it strikes the makeshift vessels and plastic tarps below which become instruments. However, the music "speaks" only to those who have the internal ear with which to hear it. It is these select few who can see beyond the chaos to sense the music’s evocation of other works of art – "conversations of drops" in marble chalices in Arabic palaces, the splash of fountains in French parks, even Handel’s WaterMusic. Only in the sublime setting of a "temple" of art could the entire phenomenon occur.

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S. Kochelev Whose Shawl Is Better. Village Beauties (1932) by Ilya Kabakov (view 2)

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S. Kochelev,Whose Shawl is Better? (Village beauties), 1932, 1992

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S. Kochelev Whose Shawl Is Better. Village Beauties (1932) by Ilya Kabakov (view 2)

Ilya Kabakov

S. Kochelev,Whose Shawl is Better? (Village beauties), 1932, 1992

S. Kochelev He Became a Doctor. Portrait of the Tyrzynkulov (1930) by Ilya Kabakov

Ilya Kabakov

S. Kochelev, He Became a Doctor. (Portrait of the Tyrzynkulov), 1930, 1992

S. Kochelev Lunchtime. Derevyanko Village (1926) by Ilya Kabakov

Ilya Kabakov

S. Kochelev, Lunchtime. (Derevyanko Village), 1926, 1992

S. Kochelev Morning in the Orchard. Portrait of Z. and V. Beklemishev (1932) by Ilya Kabakov

Ilya Kabakov

S. Kochelev, Morning in the Orchard. (Portrait of Z. and V. Beklemishev), 1932, 1992

S. Kochelev O.V. Zhiltsova and the Hog Zhenjka (1933) by Ilya Kabakov

Ilya Kabakov

S. Kochelev, O.V. Zhiltsova and the Hog Zhenjka, 1933, 1992

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