Ilya Kabakov – Look up and read the words …

As the title of this work by Russian installation artist Kabakov indicates, you should either sit or lie down upon the grass at the foot of the steel mast and look up at the sky. And in actuality, a poetic message made of filigree wire letters shimmers between 22 steel antennae fifteen meters high. The distance underscores the fragility of the writing:

“My dear! You lie in the grass, looking up / Not a soul around / All you hear is the wind / You look up into the open sky, up into the blue above, where the clouds roll by / It is perhaps the most beautiful thing that you have ever done or seen in your life.”

Aasee meadow, east of Kardinal von Galen Ring

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