AgdaPkt 2016-12-12 Closed and Joint SA PFA

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6.1.H. - Page 3 A new public art project was presented to the Public Art Task Force and to the Civic Cultural Commission to acquire a work of art created by Emilia and Ilya Kabakov who wanted to redesign their successful "Pirate Ship" interactive sculpture from a Fung Collaboratives exhibition titled "Artlantic." Staff, the Civic Cultural Commission, and the Public Art Task Force sees the acquisition of the "Pirate Ship" as a way to combine play and art for the community. The City and Fung Collaboratives have worked on past projects, and as a result, had the connection to present this unique opportunity to acquire a public art piece that would be used by children and adults alike in our community. ANALYSIS The "Pirate Ship" by artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov presents a unique opportunity to acquire an art sculpture that also could serve as a play feature for the community. The use of Park Impact Fees to acquire the piece, along with the use of future developer fees (both Park and Art fees), would allow the City to create a brand new park space. The Park Impact Fund specially is to be used for increasing active park space and recreational opportunities for the public. Ilya and Emilia Kabakov are Russian -born, American -based artists who collaborate on environments which fuse elements of the everyday with those of the conceptual. While their work is deeply rooted in the Soviet social and cultural context in which the Kabakovs came of age, their work still attains a universal significance. Their work has been shown in such venues as the Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Documenta IX, at the Whitney Biennial in 1997 and the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg among others. In 1993 they represented Russia at the 45th Venice Biennale with their installation The Red Pavilion. The Kabakovs have also completed many important public commissions throughout Europe and have received a number of honors and awards, including the Oscar Kokoschka Preis, Vienna in 2002 and the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, Paris in 1995. They have recently been selected as the artists for the 2013 annual Monumenta installation at Paris's Grand Palais. Pirate Ship is a work in progress and the artists have viewed the first temporary iteration as a large-scale model which they desire to transform into a completed artwork and park situation. This would be the only permanent public artwork by the Kabakovs in the United States. In 2012, the Kabakovs were commissioned to build a large sculpture to be placed in a temporary art park in Atlantic City, called "Artlantic." They built a partially sunken pirate ship which was enjoyed by children and adults alike. Photos of the "Pirate Ship" are attached in this report (Attachment A). Fung Collaboratives presented the opportunity to acquire the Kabakov Pirate Ship to the Civic Cultural Commission and the Public Art Task Force. Each body recommended approving this acquisition by following the review and recommendations processes set forth in the Public Art Master Plan and in Section 45.050 of the City's Public Art