1998
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 1998 ink by Ilya Kabakov, depicting Fountain, held at Museum of Modern Art.
You see a courtyard with a tall, skinny woman standing in the center. Water sprays from her mouth like a fountain, arching into a pool below. Kabakov often turned ordinary things into strange, funny scenes. Here, he takes a classic sculpture idea—the fountain—and makes it weirdly human. The woman looks calm, like she’s just spitting water forever. If you like this mix of humor and everyday life, look up more works by Ilya Kabakov.
Ilya Iosifovich Kabakov (Ukrainian: Ілля Йосипович Кабаков, romanized: Illia Yosypovych Kabakov; Russian: Илья Иосифович Кабаков; September 30, 1933 – May 27, 2023) was an American and Soviet conceptual artist, born in…
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