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Ilya Kabakov: Installations 1983-2000 Catalogue Raisonne Book
The dominant theme of Kabakov's oeuvre is the critical re-appropriation of one's own memories and recollections--a Proustian exercise in remembering that is particularly relevant to Kabakov's existence as an unofficial artist during the last decades of the Soviet Union. His first large installation, "Ten Characters"(1988), which re-staged a Soviet group apartment filled with junk and miscellaneous objects left by its previous inhabitants. In contrast to Minimalist and Conceptualist trends in installation work, Kabakov's installations give the viewer a voyeuristic look at a private realm that is by turns imaginary and autobiographical. In this space we find a recollection of the often alienating and de-socializing aspects of the Soviet regime at its worst--the fear wrought by state terror, … read more...
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