27 crates 6 tones of amber--13000 pounds 10 years to construct baroque music-bach
It is around 8 evening--precisely when all black tie art and social events start around a metropolitan city. Not unlike any of these type of events -many people gather to socialize be dressed up, to discuss things they know and know not and not to sound presumptuous but half these people sometimes have no idea what the purpose of the event they are attending really is--is it art--is it charity--is it the food? Well in this same style of events this event in particular very ambiguous set
brighton beach or prospect park? the is precluded with the signing of a no disclosure document --why you ask well no one really knows but no one would dare inquire too much as not to seem "too out of the loop".
the event is set in a large canvas tent which is perforated with the tracings of the amber from the Amber Room of the Catherine Palace in Russia. The tracings have been made by an almost impossible feat which starts with getting permission from the government to photograph every inch of the prefabricated amber room currently housed in the Catherine Palace which took 20 years to make after the initial theft of the original Amber room by the Nazis during World War II after which it was subsequently housed in Konigsberg and then mysteriously disappearing after the bombing of the city.
2016-Exhibition-The Ghost Room You have been cordially invited to celebrate the 200th year anniversary of the Amber Room. Initially, the Amber Room was a gift from the Prussian King Frederick William I to Peter the Great in 1716. The Amber Room which was originally housed in the Catherine Palace outside of St. Petersburg was looted during the invasion of the Nazis in 1941 and transported to Konigsberg from where it disappeared after massive bombings. As popular legend would have it, the room was stolen and hidden in the one of the many barracks only to be forgotten by its captors which are now presumably all dead. For the 300th year anniversary of St. Petersburg, the Russian government finished the recreation of the room currently housed in the Catherine Palace which had taken 20 years and around 11 millions US dollars to complete. The event will be held in a giant unprimed canvas tent onto which the amber contours have been traced and cut out by the artist after meticulous photographing of the 'original' room. The tent will be set on an unspecified part of Brighton Beach, the site of a mass Russian communist refugee emigration. Inside of the tent there will be an installation comprised of 13000 lamps representative both of the weight of the amber in the original room and the light which in entrapped in the essence of the amber stone. Scattered outside of the tent are 27 crates which stand in for the 27 crates said to have been used by the Nazis to transport the stolen room to Konigsberg. Emanating from the crates will be the music of Bach played though trapped speakers. The sound is both representative of the Baroque style of the room and the many German implications the room entails. The installation of the room will be advertised to be up for a period of three weeks. However, on the opening night as the guests are trickling out and there are only around 20 guests left, professional hired thieves will enter the tent and disassemble it, out it into a van. This part of the event will be photographed and shown as a separate show at some point the future. The next day ads will appear in local papers advertising the disappearance of the room. However what no one knows is that the hired thieves are driving across the country with the room to San Francisco where the room will appear fully installed overnight in an undisclosed location. The journey across country being symbolic of the journey most Russian immigrants made when arriving to the United States when they settled in NY and San Francisco.
27 crates 6 tones of amber--13000 pounds 10 years to construct baroque music-bach
It is around 8 evening--precisely when all black tie art and social events start around a metropolitan city. Not unlike any of these type of events -many people gather to socialize be dressed up, to discuss things they know and know not and not to sound presumptuous but half these people sometimes have no idea what the purpose of the event they are attending really is--is it art--is it charity--is it the food? Well in this same style of events this event in particular very ambiguous set
brighton beach or prospect park? the is precluded with the signing of a no disclosure document --why you ask well no one really knows but no one would dare inquire too much as not to seem "too out of the loop".
the event is set in a large canvas tent which is perforated with the tracings of the amber from the Amber Room of the Catherine Palace in Russia. The tracings have been made by an almost impossible feat which starts with getting permission from the government to photograph every inch of the prefabricated amber room currently housed in the Catherine Palace which took 20 years to make after the initial theft of the original Amber room by the Nazis during World War II after which it was subsequently housed in Konigsberg and then mysteriously disappearing after the bombing of the city.
2016-Exhibition-The Ghost Room You have been cordially invited to celebrate the 200th year anniversary of the Amber Room. Initially, the Amber Room was a gift from the Prussian King Frederick William I to Peter the Great in 1716. The Amber Room which was originally housed in the Catherine Palace outside of St. Petersburg was looted during the invasion of the Nazis in 1941 and transported to Konigsberg from where it disappeared after massive bombings. As popular legend would have it, the room was stolen and hidden in the one of the many barracks only to be forgotten by its captors which are now presumably all dead. For the 300th year anniversary of St. Petersburg, the Russian government finished the recreation of the room currently housed in the Catherine Palace which had taken 20 years and around 11 millions US dollars to complete. The event will be held in a giant unprimed canvas tent onto which the amber contours have been traced and cut out by the artist after meticulous photographing of the 'original' room. The tent will be set on an unspecified part of Brighton Beach, the site of a mass Russian communist refugee emigration. Inside of the tent there will be an installation comprised of 13000 lamps representative both of the weight of the amber in the original room and the light which in entrapped in the essence of the amber stone. Scattered outside of the tent are 27 crates which stand in for the 27 crates said to have been used by the Nazis to transport the stolen room to Konigsberg. Emanating from the crates will be the music of Bach played though trapped speakers. The sound is both representative of the Baroque style of the room and the many German implications the room entails. The installation of the room will be advertised to be up for a period of three weeks. However, on the opening night as the guests are trickling out and there are only around 20 guests left, professional hired thieves will enter the tent and disassemble it, out it into a van. This part of the event will be photographed and shown as a separate show at some point the future. The next day ads will appear in local papers advertising the disappearance of the room. However what no one knows is that the hired thieves are driving across the country with the room to San Francisco where the room will appear fully installed overnight in an undisclosed location. The journey across country being symbolic of the journey most Russian immigrants made when arriving to the United States when they settled in NY and San Francisco.