Project "The coat gallery" Installation

The project "Coat Gallery" was carried out by the group "Peppers" (O. Petrenko, L. Skripkina, "The Peppers") from 1995 to 2000. We hired a man who showed contemporary art by opening the flaps of his coat, where small works of art by current artists were placed. Thus, the viewer, who came to one opening day, unexpectedly got acquainted with another exhibition, arranged on the floors of an ordinary coat. With the movement of an exhibitionist, akin to an opening curtain, an entire exhibition suddenly opened up before an unsuspecting spectator. The audience studied the exhibition, sometimes rummaging through the inner world of the "carrier galleryman" for a long time. For each exhibition, catalogs were necessarily issued, in which there were texts of the "Peppers" group, as well as some eminent critics and curators. Like any gallery, the "Coat Gallery" carried out numerous sales, and even had a great commercial success. In general, the usual gallery activities were carried out, and thus one of the institutions of art - the gallery, together with expositions, authors, catalogs, spectators, gallery owners, art historians, employees (carrier galleries) and critics, becomes an object of art. The entire activity of the gallery becomes here an artifact and is involved in the very field of the work of art, the project "Coat Gallery". From such an inside-out, where the institution of art - the gallery, comes to the surface of the meaning of the object of art, one can forget oneself. What happened to the very history of this project, when the person who was hired forgot who he was and pretended to be the author.

Installation:Stone on Stone

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:34.6 W x 70.1 H x 17.3 D in

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