The Palace of Projects" 1995-1998

by I. Kabakov

This artist's book assembles over sixty proposed projects, ranging from the small in scale to the grandiose, as gathered by the legendary renegade artist Ilya Kabakov (b. 1933). As Kabakov notes in his introduction, "the world consists of a multitude of projects, realized ones, half-realized ones, and not realized at all." Kabakov, who was born in the Ukraine, studied in Lenningrad, and lived for a long time in Moscow, began as an illustrator, but gained his international reputation as a visionary installation artist.

132 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1999

Reviews

[Janet · Rating 5 out of 5]

A brilliant Russian conceptual artist living in America, it's about art objects that only exist in your mind. REflects the Soviet era's unofficial art's embrace of the ephemeral and the unheroic, the hopeless dream.In my mind I relate Kabakov with Eleanor Antin and Sophie Calle, conceptual artists and stagers of happenings which open up homely and personal visions, slightly skewed and off-center ways of being in the world, the think I like best in works of contemporary art.