Ilya Piganov – cameraman, photographer, film artist, furniture designer – is a frequent hero of our publications. The reason for a new meeting was the launch of his debut carpet collection. We have never seen anything like this. And did not touch.
Sooner or later it had to happen. All those years that Ilya Piganov was engaged in furniture design, decorated its surfaces with complex multi-layered collages, prints and painting, glued them with tracing paper, covered them with different varieties of varnish in some clever, one known way, scratched, polished and did a lot of other things, critics described his work as “something between a fresco and a Persian carpet.” One of his exhibitions in the Kunstkamera * was called “Persian Carpets”, and one of the articles dedicated to him was “The Master of Carpets”. This year, carpets have finally appeared in the Ilya Piganov Gallery. And not Persian, but the most that neither is “Pigan”. You can’t confuse them with anything. “My carpets, in fact, are the same panels that I did before, only in a new medium,” says Ilya. – Until now, they have appeared on canvases, on cabinet doors, on screen doors. Now, computer-processed and transferred by hand-printed technology onto a dense silk pile, 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 trampled on mercilessly. Their quality is crazy, tanks can ride on them. A carpet with a gerbera, for example, lay on the floor of my gallery for six months, where crowds of people enter from the street. And nothing”. While there are only three carpets, five more will appear soon. It should be added that they are all made by hand and in a single copy.
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