Nikolay Karabinovych | 10 different, not exactly the same falls of Yves Klein, 2021
20 x 25 cm, collage with 2 cut-out inkjet prints on Baryte paper.
10 + 2 a.p., every work is unique.
Framed in ramin wood with museum glass.
Price: 500 euro | 450 euro (members)
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Nikolay Karabinovych (°1988, Odessa, Ukraine) lives and works in Brussel and Kiev. The artist works in various media, including video, sound, text and performance. From 2019, he studied at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts (HISK) in Ghent. In 2017, Karabinovych was assistant curator of the 5th Odessa Biennale.
Nikolay Karabinovych received the first special PinchukArtCentre Prize in 2020, for his work Even Further.
"In my practice, I focus on dramatic social histories of Eastern Europe. I usually start from historical research and approach collective and personal memory through analytical, conceptual or interventionist tactics. Based on my passion for music, I tend to rethink the musical archive, since musical ritual is associated with almost all forms of human activity. This makes it possible to explore collisions between ephemeral and monumental, present and distant history, while keeping the aesthetic language clear and adding an extra layer of social commentary."
The edition is based on the work of the artist Yves Klein, 'Leap into the Void' (1960).
As in Klein's carefully choreographed paintings, in which he used nude female models dipped in blue paint as paintbrushes, Klein's photomontage paradoxically creates the impression of freedom and abandonment through a highly contrived process. In October 1960, Klein hired photographers Harry Shunk and Jean Kender to make a series of photographs that mimicked a jump from a second-floor window that the artist claimed to have performed earlier. This second jump was made from a rooftop in the Parisian suburb of Fontenay-aux-Roses. In the street below, a group of the artist's friends were holding a tarpaulin to catch him when he fell. Two negatives - one showing Klein jumping, the other the surrounding scene (without the tarpaulin) - were then printed together to create a seamless "documentary" photograph. To complete the illusion that he was able to flee, Klein distributed a fake brochure at Paris newsstands commemorating the event.
