Kabakov Ilya Biography
About the artist biography of interviews and memories of the artist Gallery September 30, Dnepropetrovsk Ilya Kabakov was born in a Jewish family, his father was a locksmith, his mother was an accountant. During the war, while with his mother in the evacuation in Samarkand, he entered the art school at the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculptures and Architecture, evacuated from the besieged city.
In the year he was transferred to the Moscow secondary art school for especially gifted children. He continued his education at the Moscow Art Institute named after V. Surikov, who graduated from the year in the year, an illustrator. Since the year, with great success, he worked as an illustrator of children's books in publishers. The most important shows and discussions of work took place here.
Currently, the workshop has an institution of problems of contemporary art. Kabakov entered the international art arena in the early X. He is a multiple participant in the Venice Biennale and the “Document” in Kassel. In the year, ICA in London opened his personal exhibition. In the Roundhouse in London, a giant total installation of the tavern of The Palace of Projects was opened, which went down in history as one of the most fundamental artistic statements on the topic of utopia.
Kabakov is the founder of Moscow conceptualism. Already in the middle of the x, the first absurd sculptural objects “Automat and Chickens” appeared, prompted by the realities of everyday life. In the beginning of the 10ths, Kabakov was one of the first to address the problem of studying the local cultural context and Soviet mentality, the intelligent split of life “for them” and “for themselves”.
Since the creation of the graphic albums “Ten characters” - a characteristic feature of his work becomes “character”, often his work has a direct connection with his own biography. It creates a kind of archaeology Homo Soveticus, based on the reception of parody deconstruction. So, in the year, in the role of the artist-former, he creates a series, stylistically quite close to social art, uses the faceless style of posters and instructions in it.
As a rule, the works of this period are devoted not so much to the pathos language of Soviet totalitarianism, which is usually parodied by social artists, how much the back side of the front facade existing in reality-chaos, absurd, devastation. In the year, Kabakov began to design the first installations, and he came to the creation of "total installations." The most famous of them, which has become the classic, "man who flew into space", is the reconstruction of a very poor dwelling, whose walls are pasted with reproductions from Soviet magazines.
The hole in the ceiling and primitive means of overcoming gravity hint that its inhabitant managed to break out of the wretched world to another reality, and at the same time gives rise to doubts about the possibilities of this event. In another installation, Monument to a Lost Civilization, the idea of dystopia was crystallized, which is characteristic of almost all Kabakov's works.
Kabakov’s works are called upon to prove that any project of private or global, which is holding on an authoritarian will to power, has a potential probability of collapse, failure.