Product Description

During the summer of 2000 Ilya Kabakov was visiting professor at the Corso Superiore di Arte Visiva at the Ratti Foundation in Como. Together with his wife, Emilia, he offered the students his ideas on total installations, exploring their poetry and meanings. This volume documents the end-of-course exhibition of the students as well as Kabakov's public space installation. In Kabakov's words: ''Every place that has been inhabited in history by man has a special 'aura' that surrounds today's inhabitants and will be there for tomorrow's as long as it isn't destroyed. It takes time to create an aura and nothing for it to be destroyed... I am not fond of destruction; we should respect traditions, beliefs, legends and memories. The aura that comes from our past keeps us from falling into oblivion; it is what we call our culture, our inner world.''

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2679511 in Books
• Published on: 2001-06-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

About the Author
Born in Dnepopetrovsk, USSR, in 1933, Ilya Kabakov graduated from the V.A. Surikov Art Academy, Moscow, in 1957, and joined the Soviet Artist's Union in 1965. After winning numerous prizes for his art all over the world and on both sides of the Iron Curtain-particularly after the late 1980s onset of "perestroika" allowed him to build a career in the West-Kabakov settled in New York City in 1992, where he continues to live and work, along with his wife Emilia.