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Ilya Kabakov: The Man Who Flew into Space from his Apartment (AFTERALL) by Boris Groys, Fiona Elliott (translator) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 Soviet utopia, in which where cosmic vision and the political project of the Communist revolution are seen as indissoluble.The Man who Flew into Space from His Apartment also raises questions of authorship in modernity. All of Kabakov's work is made in the name of other, fictitious artists. This reveals a hidden rule of the modern art system: only an artist who doesn't want to be an artist or who doesn't even know that he is an artist is a real artist--just as only an artwork that does not look like an artwork is a real

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Author

Boris Groys, Fiona Elliott (translator)

Publisher

Afterall Books

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781846380211

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Art, History, History & Criticism

Rating

4.2 / 5 (29 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14