Ilya Iosifovich Kabakov (Russian: Илья́ Ио́сифович Кабако́в; born September 30, 1933), is a Russian–American conceptual artist, born in Dnipropetrovsk in what was subsequently the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. He worked for thirty years in Moscow, from the 1950s until the late 1980s. He now lives and works upon Long Island, United States.
Throughout his forty-year plus career, Kabakov has produced a wide range of paintings, drawings, installations, and school texts—not to reference extensive memoirs that track his sparkle from his childhood to the to the front 1980s. In recent years, he has created installations that evoked the visual culture of the Soviet Union, though this theme has never been the exclusive focus of his work. Unlike some underground Soviet artists, Kabakov united the Union of Soviet Artists in 1959, and became a full fanatic in 1962. This was a prestigious tilt in the USSR and it brought considering it substantial material benefits. In general, Kabakov illustrated children’s books for 3–6 months each year and next spent the remainder of his time on his own projects.
By using fictional biographies, many inspired by his own experiences, Kabakov has attempted to tell the birth and death of the Soviet Union, which he claims to be the first futuristic society to disappear. In the Soviet Union, Kabakov discovers elements common to every modern society, and in doing thus he examines the rift along with capitalism and communism. Rather than depict the Soviet Union as a unsuccessful Socialist project defeated by Western economics, Kabakov describes it as one utopian project in the midst of many, capitalism included. By reexamining historical narratives and perspectives, Kabakov delivers a statement that every project, whether public or private, important or trivial, has the potential to fail due to the potentially authoritarian will to power.
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