Through installations, albums and paintings, Ilya Kabakov - called the "father of Moscow conceptualism" - translates the experience of Soviet life into universal metaphors for the human condition. Wallach's monograph features Kabakov's own commentaries as well as actual texts of the installations.
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A successful illustrator of children's books, Ilya Kabakov rose to international prominence in the 1970s when he became the leading member of a group of dissident artists known as the Moscow Conceptualists. Art critic Amei Wallach follows the important steps in Kabakov's development as an artist, from his colored-pencil narrative works of the 70s to his "total installations" in the 80s that consisted of, among other things text, sounds, photographs, illustrations, kitchen items, and garbage. In the 90s, Kabakov's work has been seen at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Kabakov, who left the Soviet Union in 1988 and now lives in New York City, is well known in the West as a Russian conceptual artist, but he has yet to have an exhibit in Moscow, according to this lavishly illustrated monograph. Born in 1933 in Ukraine amid forced starvation and collectivization, his sense of being an outsider reinforced by his Jewishness, Kabakov freewheelingly deconstructs the lies, absurdities, betrayals, psychological deprivations, linguistic dislocations and self-deceptions of day-to-day Soviet unreality. His installations The Toilet (1992), portraying communal life in an outhouse, and My Homeland (The Flies) (1991), an airborne, hierarchical realm populated with insects, give the lie to the Soviet heaven-on-earth. Paintings, drawings, albums with movable pages and paperwork collages that mock official posters and instructions transcend their immediate Soviet context, forming a quirky art full of spiritual yearning, obsessed characters, mazes, flying boys, fear and loathing of bureaucracy. Wallach is arts commentator for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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