 “To resurrect it is the goal of our project”, the artist declares.Therefore, the glove symbolizes the lost tradition of poetic verse and the ability to “shroud…thoughts in poetic form.” 

"Monument to a Lost Civilization" is at once the most comprehensive retrospective to date and Kabakov's grandest statement.Originally exhibited in Palermo, Italy, in 1999, the monument includes 38 installations out of a self-declared oeuvre of 140 artworks.