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title: "155 - Incident at the Museum of Water Music, Kabakov 9/12-10/17 1992"
date: 2017-08-21T17:55:00-04:00
author: Graham Murray
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Incident at the Museum of Water Music
Ilya Kabakov
Sep 11 – Oct 16, 1992
Ilya Kabakov
S. Kochelev, First Snow. (At the Pioneer Sanatorium), 1932, 1992
Description
*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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Ilya Kabakov
S. Kochelev,Whose Shawl is Better? (Village beauties), 1932, 1992
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Ilya Kabakov
S. Kochelev,Whose Shawl is Better? (Village beauties), 1932, 1992
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Ilya Kabakov
S. Kochelev, He Became a Doctor. (Portrait of the Tyrzynkulov), 1930, 1992
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Ilya Kabakov
S. Kochelev, Lunchtime. (Derevyanko Village), 1926, 1992
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Ilya Kabakov
S. Kochelev, Morning in the Orchard. (Portrait of Z. and V. Beklemishev), 1932, 1992
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Ilya Kabakov
S. Kochelev, O.V. Zhiltsova and the Hog Zhenjka, 1933, 1992
Incident at the Museum or Water Music, 1992
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