© Alexander Khartjenko © Arsen Savadov
Helen. Wooljacket with silver collar and cuffs. Karl Lagerfeldt, $627. Knit pants Donna Karen, $320
Artist
Arsen Savadov
(Ukraina, född 1962)
Artist
Alexander Khartjenko
(Ukraina, född 1965)
Date1997
MediumChromogenic print, type C
DimensionsBildmått: 76 × 101,6 cm
Ram: 78 × 103,7 × 4 cm
Classification
Countries
Credit LineInköp 2001
Object NumberMOM/2001/245
The artwork is not on display
About the artworkArsen Savadov’s photographic series of models posing in contemporary fashion in a graveyard was published in a fashion magazine. The titles are the names of the models, the fashion houses that designed the garments, and their price in dollars. In the background funerals and burials are taking place, with mourners gathered around coffins about to be lowered into the ground. The series from this old orthodox churchyard in Kiev is part of the larger project “Deepinsider”, in which the artist explored other places where people carry out their work, including a mine and a greenhouse. Combining fashion with a graveyard may appear blasphemous or provocative, but death is a given subject for Savadov. Only cheerful Americans can avoid discussing it, he once said.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks
"MM: ID 1102:1" Titel på ramens baksida
Selected exhibition history
Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Efter Muren: Konst och kultur i det postkommunistiska Europa (1999-2000)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues
After the wall : art and culture in post communist Europe : [Moderna Museet, Stockholm : 16 october 1999 - 16 january 2000]