Happy Russian Artists.
Nigel Wrench writes: "Ilya Kabakov (here with his wife and collaborator Emilia) is widely regarded as the greatest living Russian contemporary artist.
Now 76, he worked more or less illicitly as an artist in what was then the Soviet Union, before leaving for the US in 1987.
His work from the Soviet period has reached £1-million at auction.
The Kabakovs now specialise in large-scale unexpected installations. They transformed the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park into a series of white rooms (for sleeping, corpses?) and used the Roundhouse in Camden for The Palace of Projects, intended as a gallery of half-realised ideas.
Flawed utopia is at the heart of what they do.
No installations, but large new paintings on show now at the Sprovieri Gallery in London, here's one:
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