Why is Ilya Tabenkin a revolutionary artist a phenomenon of a special order in the visual arts?

First of all, because in his work there are new meanings that work at different levels of perception. It is like the cultural layers of an ancient civilization: some of them are already clear to us, while others have yet to be revealed, unraveled and admired.

Tabenkin’s paintings, like a good book, can be “re-read” over and over again, and each time you discover deep ideas in them. And this is an integral part of modern conceptual art, in which the new language of still lifes by Ilya Lvovich Tabenkin plays a special role.