Art & Narrative- ILYA KABAKOV

Kitchen #2 Voices
The Short Man (The Bookbinder)

The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment, 1985-1988

Ilya Kabakov is an installation artist, who uses many different materials and techniques to create different artworks. The main themes of his artworks deal with issues from the Soviet Union, he has also created installations using soviet spaces. He uses interesting and different ways to represent his ideas about the Soviet Union, his installations do not always directly relate to the Soviet Union, in his works he chooses to relate to the people that lived though the Soviet union and tell there story. Kabakov creates his works around the main theme of the Soviet Union because it was a large part of his life. Kabakov works does not have a strong polictial message, i believe that Kabakov creates uses works for just the purpose of telling the stories of the people to the rest of the world.

The materials and structure of his works means that the viewer is forced to look and try to understand the story being told by the artist.