Collection of carpets
Ilya Piganov
It was bound to happen sooner or later.All those years that Ilya Piganov was designing furniture, decorating its surfaces with complex multi-layered collages, prints and paintings, pasting them with tracing paper, covering them with different types of varnish in some tricky way known only to him, scratching, polishing and doing many other things, critics described his works as nothing less than "something between a fresco and a Persian carpet". One of his exhibitions at the Kunstkamera* was called "2014 Persian Carpets", and one of the articles dedicated to him was "Master of Carpets". This year, carpets finally appeared in the Ilya Piganov Gallery. And not Persian ones, but the most genuine "Piganov ones". You can't confuse them with anything. "My carpets are essentially the same panels that I made before, only on a new medium," says Ilya. "Until now, they appeared on canvases, on cabinet doors, on screens. Now, having undergone computer processing and transferred using hand-stuffing technology onto thick silk pile, they appeared in the form of carpets. In the interior, they work like a painting or any other art object. The only difference is that this work of art can be thrown on the floor and mercilessly trampled underfoot. Their quality is crazy, tanks can drive on them. The carpet with gerberas, for example, lay on the floor of my gallery for six months, where crowds of people come from the street. And nothing». So far there are only three carpets, five more will appear soon. It is worth adding that all of them are made by hand and in a single copy. Ilya Piganovat Gallery. 8 (901) 539 1976
