Ilya Kabakov

Ilya Kabakov was born 1933 in Dnjepropetrowsk (Ukraine), lives and works in New York. «When I saw his exhibition The Life of Flies I was astounded by his unique combination of philosophical seriousness and totally unserious ironic play. He piles on the untruth until it takes on the poetic beauty of imaginative creation.» Kabakov's mastery of stagecraft in this edifice of lies no doubt sprang from his own origins in a world that was just such an edifice.