TOTART: Natalia Abalakova & Anatoly Zhigalov
KITCHEN ART, OR THE SECRETS OF RUSSIAN ART
("Found") Installation
1983
Place: Kitchen in the artists' flat
Material: Gas stove - “Dukhovka” (Spiritual attitude to Art - symbolism); kitchen table - “Sakralovka” (theurgical attitude to Art as to a sacral act), garbage can – “Netlenka” (High Art, Eternal Art as opposite to Low Art).
Three aspects of Russian art: Spiritual - The holy of holies -Imperishable.
Kitchen was the place where Russian avantgard of 1970-1980-s “was cooked”.