Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky
Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky Cv
Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky have collaborated and co-authored many important and widely exhibited works, such as their major video installations Incidents (1996/7) and Fog (1999/2000). At the same time they have their own independent practices, and have developed distinctive languages and bodies of works. Their work is rooted in a deep knowledge and understanding of historical practices, such as constructivism and avant-garde theatre, but is also highly poetical and playful. Many of their recent collaborative works, realised as video, photography or slide projection, deal with the issue of time, and often present a powerful tension between two visions and trajectories, which can hardly be unified in an individual object or view. Drama and play are set up with the simplest devises, while conceptual strategies are perfectly harmonised with a strong fascination for the visual and tactile qualities of everyday objects and encounters.Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky live and work in New York.
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Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky Press
Art Monthly, September 2006
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Modern Painters, September 2006
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Portfolio Magazine, No. 44, 2006
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A PARALLAX VIEW: SVETLANA, IGOR, AND VICE-VERSA
Text by Barry Schwabsky, published in 'Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky', EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland, 2007, p. 50
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Text by Barry Schwabsky, published in 'Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky', EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland, 2007, p. 50
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Making the Stone Stony: From Alienation to Collaboration...
Text by Anthony Spira, published in 'Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky', EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland, 2007, p.29
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Text by Anthony Spira, published in 'Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky', EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland, 2007, p.29
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Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky Exhibitions
Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky Public Exhibitions
CURRENTBetween Here and There: Dislocation and Displacement in Contemporary Photography
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
2 July - 13 February 2011
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Radical Conceptual
MMK Frankfurt
19 February - 22 August 2010
MMK Frankfurt
PAST
Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky
Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne
6 February - 18 April 2010
Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne
Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky Catalogues and Editions
Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky Images

Pink & White - A Play in Two Time Directions, 2006 8 single channel dvd installation with two channel audio track Installation view Espo Museum of Modern Art (EMMA), Finland 8 February - 29 April 2007

Pink & White - A Play in Two Time Directions, 2006 8 single channel dvd installation with two channel audio track Installation view Espo Museum of Modern Art (EMMA), Finland 8 February - 29 April 2007

Still, 2006 16 mm film transferred to video Installation view Espo Museum of Modern Art (EMMA), Finland 8 February - 29 April 2007

The Crash 1, 2006 Black and white photographs 71 x 46 x 3 cm

Portrait, 2006 6 Black and white photographs 69.5 x 68.5 x 2.5 cm

Portrait, 2006 6 Black and white photographs 69.5 x 68.5 x 2.5 cm

526, 2005 6 Projector slide piece (six 35mm slides) Dimensions variable Installation view Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel

Yellow Sound, 2005 Single channel dvd projection (silent) Installation view Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel

The Road, 2005 Two channel dvd on LCD screens Installation view Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky, 29 & 52-54 Bell Street, 7th July 2006 - 19th August 2006

Sandglass - Establishing Shot I, 2005 Two channel projection (silent) Dimensions variable Installation view Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel

Sandglass - Establishing Shot II, 2005 Two channel projection (silent) Dimensions variable Espo Museum of Modern Art (EMMA), Finland 8 February - 29 April 2007

Sandglass - Establishing Shot II, 2005 Two channel projection (silent) Dimensions variable Espo Museum of Modern Art (EMMA), Finland 8 February - 29 April 2007

Untitled, 2002 Diptych of C-Type Print on aluminium hung 10cm apart 89 x 89 cm each Installation view Espo Museum of Modern Art (EMMA), Finland 8 February - 29 April 2007

The Day Before Tomorrow , 1999 Two screen slide projection with 216 slides Dimesions variable Installation view Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel

Incidents, 1996-1997 Single screen or monitor presentation Dimensions variable Installation view Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel

Seascape, 1984 Oil on canvas with a handwritten text 70 x 90 cm

Cold / Warm Shapes, 1979 Black and white photographs 29 x 30 cm each Installation view ESPOO Museum, Finland, 2007

Pictorial Study, 1975 Framed black and white photographs 54 x 43 x 4 cm each Installation view Espo Museum of Modern Art (EMMA), Finland 8 February - 29 April 2007
Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky Contact
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