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{{short description|Russian-American conceptual artist}}
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[[File:Ilya Kabakov.jpg|thumb]]⏎
{{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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| birth_date    = {{Birth date and age |1933|9|30|}}
| birth_place   = [[Dnipropetrovsk]], [[Ukrainian SSR]]
(contracted; show full)olor, that of soil” is left intact, interrupted in a discrete manner almost secretively or mistakenly. Yet the dominance of the center overpowers the viewer, returning his gaze to the middle and away from the discrepancies in color. Kabakov would repeat this strategy from 1983-1988 with a second series called ''Three Green Paintings''. In this series, rather than depict objects, he placed texts on the upper left and right hand corners of what is otherwise a field of green enamel paint.

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Kabakov described the colors of paint in ''The Russian Series'' and ''Three Green Paintings'' as the main characters. The brown sandy soil color of the first series was the same enamel used in the Soviet Union during the 1950s and 1960s to paint everything from roofs to hallways, but most often floors. Kabakov points out that the color of the state is red but the color of the country is gray, due to its “humdrum existence”.  Kabakov assigns these colors a metaphysica(contracted; show full)[[Category:American installation artists]]
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