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Ilya KABAKOV

Ilya KABAKOV  1933 — 

Ілля КАБАКОВ • Илья Иосифович КАБАКОВ

Ilya Iosifovich Kabakov was born in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine in 1933. A conceptual artist of Russian-Jewish origin. Moved to Moscow in 1945 where he graduated from the Moscow Art School in 1951 and from the Surikov Art Institute in 1957, department of graphics. Ilya Kabakov was a leader of the Moscow Conceptual School in the Soviet unofficial art movement. After working as an illustrator of children’s books, he started experimenting in combining word and image. Kabakov began his experimentation with word and image in his albums, which he started developing in the spring of 1972. It allowed him to add the ‘fourth dimension” – time – into his work. The artist showed his albums, composed of similar-sized sheets housed in folders, to groups of four to ten people at a time. The viewer was to turn the pages one by one, which by idea was similar to viewing a theatrical performance. He now lives and works on Long Island.

Works

Constructions
Constructions
Two drawings from the Man under the shower series
Two drawings from the Man under the shower series
U menya golova bolit
U menya golova bolit

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