Artist talk at Garage. John Baldessari, Ilya Kabakov.
The American artist John Baldessari and the Russian Ilya Kabakov are equally celebrated as "godfathers" of Conceptual art and share a love of wit and irony that transcends language. Both have worked for nearly five decades, have a passion for painting and art history, and play with image and text, as well as mining popular culture for inspiration. Surprisingly, they have only shown together once, and have never had the opportunity to discuss their practices together in public.
On the occasion of Baldessari's first show in Moscow, 1+1=1 at Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, join co-curators Kate Fowle and Hans Ulrich Obrist for a conversation with the two artists on their views on art, what inspires them, and what Conceptualism really means to each.
