Dmitri Prigovs Biographie
Russian artist, poet and sculptor. One of the founders of Moscow Conceptualism in art and literary genre (poetry and prose). Author of numerous performances, participants in international forums of Contemporary Art, winner of the Pushkin Prize.
He was, according to representatives of its terms, the intellectual bridge between the times of the sixties with the era of the cult of winning hydrocarbons. Man unbridled drive, on a day when the attack happened, Prigov was going to participate in its ordinary and obviously does not last performance: students in the group "War" should have been put Prigov in the Soviet case and during the day to pick up his ladder to the 22-th (the latest) floor of the hostel, Moscow State University under the poems of the poet.
Born on November 5, 1940 in an intellectual family: his father engineer, mother a pianist. After completing secondary school, he worked at the factory as a fitter. He studied at the Moscow Higher Industrial Art School behalf of Stroganov. Education - a sculptor.
In 1966-1974 he worked at the architectural control of Moscow.
In late 1960 - early 1970′s ideological friends with the artists of the Moscow underground. In 1975 he was admitted to the Union of Artists. However, the USSR was not organized by any of its exhibitions.
Since 1989, the Moscow party Avantgarde Club (KLAVA).
Prigov composing poems since 1956, but until 1986 at the home are not printed. Until that time, repeatedly printed abroad: since 1975 Russian-language editions of the newspaper "Russian Thought", journal "A-Ja", Almanac "Catalog".
In 1986, after a street performances Prigov was forcibly sent for treatment at a psychiatric clinic where he was released through the intervention of well-known cultural figures inside and outside the country.
Prigov - by a large number of graphic works, installations, texts, performances. Acted in films. Participated in musical projects, one of which, in particular, has been organized from the Moscow avant-garde artists mock rock band “The Central Russian Upland”. From 1993 to 1998 Prigov repeatedly performed with a rock band "NOT Recipe", which used his lyrics in his work.
Leading lyrical images poetics Prigov - militsaner "and abstract" it". Lyrical heroes see the world through the eyes of a blunt Soviet citizen. Major prose texts Prigov are the first two parts of an unfinished trilogy, in which the author has to taste three traditional genre western writing: autobiography in the novel "Live in Moscow," the note in traveler′s novel “Only mine, Japan”. In the third novel was supposed to be submitted to the genre of confession.
The total number of poetic works Prigov - over 35,000.
Dmitri Prigov died on the night of July 16, 2007 in the 23rd Moscow hospital due to complications after a heart attack.
Dmitri A. Prigov buried in Moscow, Donskoy cemetery.
