Beginning his career as a children's book illustrator in the Soviet Union, Ilya Kabakov became an internationally famous installation sculptor of the 20th century. His environments are rooms and corridors filled with cast-offs of daily life such as broken furniture, all carefully labelled, or with personality types.
He was born in the Ukraine to Jewish parents, and the family evacuated to Samarkand during World War II. He graduated from Surikov Art Academy in Moscow and then had a success (showing 500 of 1131 characters). |
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