“For me the art world is like a huge river, which began somewhere in the past and keeps flowing towards the future.”

—  Ilya Kabakov

Source: Boris Groĭs, ‎David A. Ross, ‎Iwona Blazwick (1998). Ilya Kabakov, p. 22

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