
Sobakin
Ilya Kabakov's *Sobakin* is a diptych composed of enamel on canvas mounted to plywood, presented within the artist's distinctive frame. The work reflects Kabakov's signature engagement with Soviet institutional aesthetics, employing the clinical precision of enamel text and imagery to evoke the bureaucratic visual language of official notices and communal spaces. As with much of his practice, the piece transforms the mundane artifacts of collective Soviet life into a meditation on anonymity, identity, and the quiet absurdity of everyday existence.
- Medium
- enamel on canvas, mounted to plywood, in artist's frame, diptych
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale
February 9, 2016
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