- Vadim Sidur
Vadim Abramovich Sidur ( _ru. Вадим Абрамович Сидур;
28 January 1924 inYekaterinoslav -26 June 1986 Moscow ) [http://www.sidur.ru/vspodr.htm Sidur's biography] Sidur Museum ] was a famousRussian avant-garde sculptor and artist sometimes referred as the "SovietHenry Moore ". Sidur is the creator of style named Grob-Art ("Coffin-Art"). Vadim Sidur also left a book of poetry named "The Most Happy Autumn" (Самая Счастливая Осень) and a memoir "Monuments to the current state" (Памятники Современному Состоянию).Biography
Sidur was born to a Jewish family of Yekaterinoslav (currently
Dnipropetrovsk ,Ukraine ). In 1942 he was enlisted to theRed Army where he participated in the battles of theWorld War II near his home town. After been wounded in his jaw by a bullet he was discharged as a disabled veteran. Sidur abandoned his plans to study medicine and enteredStroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry inMoscow instead [http://www.sidur.net/english/start_e.htm Biography of Sidur] on the Sidur.Net site] , where his teachers were G.I. Motovilov and S.L. Rabinovich. In 1957 he became a member of the Union of Artists of USSR.During the early period he works on realistic ceramics sculpture. There were also such works as "Heads of the Blinds", "Portrait of
Ernst Neizvestny " cut out of rock In 1950s Sidur's art deviated from the official cannon and completely abandoned it in 1959 developing his own art language.In 1960s he produced the sculpture series of "Monuments" (Монументы), almost all are now indeed public monuments on the squares of Russia and the West. In that work and the connected series Disabled (Инвалиды) he was trying to concentrate the artistic form to a symbol, a sign or a formula.
Later he worked on his own
philosophy centered around an artist, prophet of the future global catastrophes. An incarnation of this idea in art became his style of Grob-Art, that sidur saw as a new direction in art. In 1974 he worked on the book "Monuments to the current state" (Памятники Современному Состоянию) that he self-described as amyth . He also shot an underground moovie based on the book. He works on sculpture series "Man and Woman", "Motherhood". In 80ies just before his death he wrote a book of poetry named "The Most Happy Autumn" (Самая Счастливая Осень).Since 1960s Sidur's works became known in the West. Soon he becam famous. In Soviet Union his works were not exhibited since 1950s until his death with the exception of the one-day exhibition in the "House of Writer" in Moscow in 1968. After Sidur's death and with the onset of
perestroika there was established "Vadim Sidur's Museum" (since 1995 named "Moscow State Vadim Sidur's Museum") and the artistic inheritance of Sidure was recognized as the "national treasure".References
External links
* [http://www.sidur.ru Museum of Vadim Sidur]
* [http://www.sidur.net/english/frameset_e.htm Sidur.net]
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