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Ilya Kabakov — Sobakin
Ilya Kabakov

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

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale

February 9, 2016

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Ilya Kabakov, 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
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Melancholic Mood, Soviet Era, Muted Palette, Male Artist, Nostalgic Mood, Soviet Nonconformist, Conceptual Art, Soviet Nostalgia, Russian Artist, Contemporary Artist, Installation Art, Figurative Art, Text-Based Art, Text And Image, Figurative, Diptych Format, Enamel On Canvas

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