Artforum, April 1st, 2004
ILYA AND EMILIA KABAKOV
SCULPTURECENTER/ SEAN KELLY GALLERY
Installation artists may be the last social optimists, for their work depends entirely on the willing participation of viewers they haven't met and will never meet. When installations work, it is as a dialogue between artist and viewer that remakes the social.
Long misperceived in the West as a Conceptualist, Ilya Kabakov is, rather, an imagist and a fantasist who constructs situations in which the work's most active site is the viewer's imagination. Kabakov has often said that installation is a young art. Indeed, he has done more ...
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