Ilya Kabakov Limited Edition Installation Catalogues.

New York: Abrams, 1992. First edition in this format. Quarto. Each volume is limited to 500 copies, Reproduced typescript with color and black and white photos at the rear. Titles include; The Fly with the Wings; Mental Institution, or Institute of Creative Research; The Red Wagon; We Are Leaving Here Forever! Housed in the publisher's cardboard clamshell case."Kabakov has created catalogues that reproduce the texts he has devised for the exhibitions and virtually recreate the original spectator's view. These are four of the catalogues, from 1991 exhibitions in Pittsburgh, Hanover, Dusseldorf and Malmo. The texts are all in Russian and English and most are in French and German as well. Gatefolds of the plans enable readers to see how entire rooms appeared and numerous photographs offer an immediate experience of the finished installations." (Abrams).Ilya Kabakov is a Russian - American conceptual artist, born in Dnipropetrovsk in what was then the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. He worked for thirty years in Moscow, from the 1950s until the late 1980s. He now lives and works on Long Island.Throughout his forty-year plus career, Kabakov has produced a wide range of paintings, drawings, installations, and theoretical texts — not to mention extensive memoirs that track his life from his childhood to the early 1980s