Илья и Эмилия Кабакова

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Ilya and Emilia Kabakov are Russian-born, American-based artists that collaborate on environments which fuse elements of the everyday with those of the conceptual. While their work is deeply rooted in the Soviet social and cultural context in which the Kabakovs came of age, their work still attains a universal significance.

Ilya Kabakov was born in Dnepropetrovsk, Soviet Union, in 1933. He studied at the VA Surikov Art Academy in Moscow, and began his career as a children’s book illustrator during the 1950’s. He was part of a group of Conceptual artists in Moscow who worked outside the official Soviet art system. In 1985 he received his first solo show exhibition at Dina Vierny Gallery, Paris, and he moved to the West two years later taking up a six months residency at Kunstverein Graz, Austria. In 1988 Kabakov began working with his future wife Emilia (they were to be married in 1992). From this point onwards, all their work was collaborative, in different proportions according to the specific project involved. Today Kabakov is recognized as the most important Russian artist to have emerged in the late 20th century. His installations speak as much about conditions in post-Stalinist Russia as they do about the human condition universally.

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Emilia Kabakov (nee Kanevsky) was born in Dnepropetrovsk, Soviet Union, in 1945. She attended the Music College in Irkutsk in addition to studying Spanish language and literature at the Moscow University. She immigrated to Israel in 1973, and moved to New York in 1975, where she worked as a curator and art dealer.

Their work has been shown in such venues as the Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Documenta IX, at the Whitney Biennial in 1997 and the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg among others. In 1993 they represented Russia at the 45th Venice Biennale with their installation The Red Pavilion. The Kabakovs have also completed many important public commissions throughout Europe and have received a number of honors and awards, including the Oscar Kokoschka Preis, Vienna, in 2002 and the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, Paris, in 1995.

The Kabakovs live and work in Long Island.
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Ilya Kabakov was born in 1933, Emilia Kabakov was born in 1945, both in Dnepropetrovsk (USSR). The Kabakovs have been working together collaboratively since 1989. They live and work in New York.
They have worked on large scale projects and ambitious installations throughout the world including the Russian Pavillion of the 45th Venice Biennale in 1993 and Documenta IX Kassel, Germany 1992. In May 2014, they were commissioned by Monumenta to create “The Strange City” for the Grand Palais’s nave in Paris.
From the beginning of Ilya Kabakov’s work as a children’s book illustrator in Russia, the white page has often been a fulcrum in the ideology of his work. It is both the ground upon which the artist stands to express his perception of the moment, and it has been his cloak, the fabric in which he can hide his true nature and character. It is both a place for story telling, and a place that denies this at the same time. In the series of paintings, The Canon, we see Kabakov in his boldest position thus far, the paintings are almost entirely white with a square grid pattern on the surface. Most recently in a far more romantic vein, Kabakov began working on this dichotomy between white and a pictorial memory, in his Under the Snow paintings from 2003-5. In these works the white represents snow, and the images fleeting as they popped through the picture plane randomly, almost like elements in a fairy tale. But we sense the rigors of conceptual art drawn and quartered on the paintings’ surfaces.
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Ilya Kabakov nasce a Dnepropetrovsk, in Ucraina, nel 1933. Negli anni ’50 inizia la sua carriera artistica come illustratore di libri per bambini. Attivista e teorico del movimento ‘Artisti concettuali di Mosca’, nel 1972 forma insieme ad una cerchia di intellettuali moscoviti che frequentano il suo studio il gruppo di Sretensky Boulevard. Nel 1987 lascia l’Unione Sovietica, prima per Graz, in Austria, poi per gli Stati Uniti, dove tuttora risiede insieme alla moglie Emilia.
Emilia Kabakov nasce a Dnepropetrovsk nel 1945. Dopo gli studi universitari ed il diploma in musica, nel 1973, emigra in Israele. Nel 1975 si sposta a New York dove lavora come curatrice e gallerista fino a quando, verso la fine degli anni ’80, inizia a lavora insieme a Ilya Kabakov.
Le opere di Ilya e Emilia Kabakov sono presenti nelle collezioni dei musei più importanti del mondo: il MOMA di New York, L’Hishhorn Museum di Washington, lo Stedeljik Museum di Amsterdam, la Kunstalle di Berna, il Centre Georges Pompidou di Parigi.
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Илья Иосифович Кабаков, известный художник-концептуалист, родился в Днепропетровске в 1933 году. Во время войны уехал в эвакуацию в Самарканд, где поступил в школу при ленинградском Институте живописи, скульптуры и архитектуры. После войны переехал в Москву, учился в Московском полиграфическом институте. Работал иллюстратором детских книг и журналов.

С 1988 года живет и работает в Нью-Йорке, в последнее время работает в соавторстве со своей женой Эмилией.

В 2008 г. вместе с супругой удостоен художественной премии императора Японии, награжден орденом Дружбы за большой вклад в сохранение, развитие и популяризацию русской культуры за рубежом

Работы Кабакова находятся в собраниях многих музеев и галерей — Третьяковской галерее, Эрмитаже, Русском музее, Музее современного искусства Нью-Йорка и других.
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“Меня не возьмут” – написал тогда Кабаков. Ведь на протяжении многих лет мир советского “неофициального искусства” (одним из лидеров которого и был Кабаков) не мог, не имел права рассчитывать на выставки и признание зрителей.
Но шло время, закончилась эпоха СССР, и оказалось, что шансы Ильи Кабакова “попасть в будущее” – гораздо выше, чем у кого бы то ни было. Сегодня он и его жена Эмилия – самые известные русские художники на Западе. Работы Кабаковых хранятся в 250 музеях мира, более 50 инсталляций украшают парки, площади и улицы городов на всех континентах, а работы Кабакова “Жук” и “Номер люкс” являются двумя самыми дорогими когда-либо проданными произведениями современного российского искусства…
Как ни удивительно, этот грандиозный успех пришел к Кабакову после 55 лет. Тогда, когда, как он сам говорит, “полностью сформировавшийся советский тип” принял решение уехать на Запад. Жизнь этого человека, его судьба, его семья, его отношения с искусством состоит из бесчисленного числа парадоксов, которые так сложно понять сразу, но которые так увлекательно разгадывать, слушая его воспоминания.