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{{Infobox artist
| name          = Ilya Kabakov
| image         = "The Man Who Flew in to Space From His Apartment"("L'home que va volar a l'espai des del seu apartament").jpg
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| caption       = Ilya Kabakov gives instructions for the installation "The Man Who will Fly into Space From His Apartment"
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Kabakov claims the albums are a genre somewhere between several types of art including literature, fine arts, and cinematography. “Most of all,” he suggests, “the ‘albums’ are a type of ‘domestic theater’…like old theater conducted on a town square in broad daylight”. He compares his albums to theater where the viewer is bound by action and darkness, which does not allow for examination and evaluation of the action. The interest in giving the viewer the freedom to interact 
with and interpret the artwork is central to Kabakov’s oeuvre. None of his works are didactic or attempt to deliver a political statement.

==The 1980s==
Unlike many Soviet artists who emigrated to the West in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Kabakov remained in Russia until 1987. His first trip to the West was to [[Graz]], [[Austria]] when the Kunstverein gave him an artistic residency. Between 1988 and 1992, Kabakov claimed no permanent home yet stayed in the West, working and living only briefly in various cou(contracted; show full)[[Category:American installation artists]]
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