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Sprovieri is pleased to present four large paintings from Ilya & Emilia Kabakov "Under the Snow" (2004 – 2006) from 17th November through 16th January 2010. This is their fifth exhibition at Sprovieri.

ARTISTS' STATEMENT:
"Under the Snow's concept is based on the idea of the depiction of a soft, bright, white medium, with fragments of real or not real, but in any case recognizable, reality breaking through it. The effect resembles what we see looking out of an airplane window when the earth is visible through the breaking cloud cover. But the very same earth directly underfoot can appear the exact same way, when it is visible between heaps of snow during a thaw. In any variation, we are talking about unique sorts of "windows". Some sort of remnants of the past can be seen through these windows. Either from the actual Soviet past, or from some pre-past that surfaces from depths no longer from ones' memory, but rather from one's imagination. An artistic task is also postulated in this work. These "ruptures" can be interpreted as expressionist, formless spots rushing diagonally across a white background."