Ropac.net : Ilya & Emilia Kabakov Group exhibition 'Modeling the World' in China .
Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, 'My Grandfather’s Shed', 1998 (interior). Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, '16 Installaties', Muhka, 17 April 1998 — 23 August 1998. © Ilya & Emilia Kabakov. Photo: M HKA. Courtesy of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov Art Foundation.
The group exhibition Modeling the World (15 March—7 September 2025, Aranya Art Center, Beidaihe, China) presents four parallel projects, inspired by and constructed from architecture and models, including Ilya and Emilia Kabakov's works. Here, models become metaphors for a range of concepts, social phenomena, emotions, memories, and imaginations. From spiritual architecture to public space, Aranya has long used architecture to shape its unique social life, culture, and aesthetic, which is itself a starting point for this exhibition. For this reason, this exhibition also presents models and design drawings from representative works of architecture in the Aranya community. Modeling the World attempts to explore how the model exists in the contemporary artist’s practice as a tool, medium, and way of thinking, and to provide new perspectives to help us understand the world.
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