Monday, May 14, 2007

Ilya Kabakov: The Man who Flew into Space from His Apartment



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The fictitious hero of this 1984 installation is a lonely dreamer who develops an impossible project: to fly alone in cosmic space. But this dream is also an individual appropriation of a collective Soviet project and the official Soviet propaganda connected to it. Having built a makeshift slingshot, the hero apparently flies through the ceiling of his shabby room and vanishes into space. The miserable room and the primitive slingshot suggest the reality behind the ... More >>

Ilya Kabakov: The Man who Flew into Space from His Apartment

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