Ilya Kabakov, an artist whose expansive works sharply directed their aim at the imploded dreams of the Soviet Union, ushering in new possibilities for installation art in the process, died on Saturday at 89. His death was announced by his family that same day.
Ilya Kabakov was born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, in 1933. When World War II started, his father went to fight, leaving him alone with his mother, who moved first to the Caucasus, then to Samarkand. Because his father did not return after the war, they lived nomadically, ending up in Moscow, where he attended art school at the Surikov Art Institute.
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