Interrupted project «Dmitry Prigov»
ARTinvestment.RU   20 июля 2007

16 July 2007, in a Moscow hospital as a result of extensive infarction died Dmitry Prigov. Famous poet, painter, performansistu was 66 years old.

16 July 2007, in a Moscow hospital as a result of extensive infarction died Dmitry Prigov. Famous poet, painter, performansistu was 66 years old.

Dmitry Prigov (middle name not a tribute to the formalities and mandatory part of the name of the similar project artist) stands alone among the leaders of the unofficial Russian art: he had not gone to rest, leaving all the forces in the sixties, not left in a quiet abroad and remained in Moscow, and expanded its powerful energy to a new generation, brought up in a new era. Amateur hoax and vivid performances, he was, according to representatives of its terms, the intellectual bridge between the times of the sixties to the era of the cult of winning hydrocarbons. A man of unbridled drive, a day when the attack happened, Prigov was going to participate in its ordinary and certainly not the last performance: students in the group «war» Prigova were put in the Soviet case and during the day to raise on his ladder to the 22 th (the latest ) storey dormitory MSU poetry by the poet.

Dmitry Prigov sixties - a graduate of the Stroganov School of the Department of Sculpture, schedule, unofficial poet. In the 1970's his poetry began to print the now legendary immigrant edition - French «A-I», American almanac «Catalog» etc. The second half of the eighties - spectacular performances, literary group ECP (Yerofeyev - Prigov - Sorokin), the first «psihushka »as educational relapse leaving age, many overseas exhibitions, informal event. Ninety, two thousand - yes, all the same Prigov. Changing times, the conditions imposed by being transformed into practice Prigovym image «State Militsanera», changing tools and technologies of artistic expression, but the core of the old - generic ideas to create the motion.

When asked which of his many «professions» Prigov's main, he once replied that he considered himself an employee culture. Others viewed it as almost the central figure in contemporary Moscow conceptualism.

Prigov left a great artistic heritage.

According to his relatives, he had a rare for the creative rights of labor discipline. UPOV is not in the mere inspiration, «employee culture» has set for himself «standard» - so many lines to write, so many square centimeters draw. With pictures of recent years, published on your own site www.prigov.ru to the viewer watching infernal beings, people with a third eye, recurring images of all-seeing eye and stemware filling red. The specific system of concepts, metaphors, images. Like, honestly, not all. Very interesting section sketches the installation with the ideas embodied in the figures. That they actually found this sea subtexts, artistic gestures, for an array of treatments and reasons for reflection.

Graphics by Dmitry Prigova only this year got into the field of world-class auction. In February at Sotheby's sold two graphics sheet - pawky «Evening in Koktebel» ( «Bars») and the philosophical «Sky, Sea» 1978 - respectively for 3.6 and 4.8 thousand pounds.

Sources: www.krugosvet.ru , www.gif.ru , www.art4.ru , www.prigov.ru , www.sothebys.com