German Vinogradov died

Today, February 25, in Moscow, at the age of 64, the artist-activist, poet and musician German Vinogradov died.

This was announced by the artist Katya Bochavar.

German Igorevich Vinogradov was born in 1957 in Moscow, in 1976-1983 he studied at the architectural faculty of the Moscow Institute of Land Management.

After the institute, he worked as a guard-guard. He participated in several independent groups and associations, in 1989 he created the group “Wine and Bread” (along with Natalia Pshenichnikova), in 1994-the Kwakuum group (along with Willy Melnikov, Alexei Kravchenko and Vera Sazhina). In 1990, he founded the Gribond Gallery. In 1995, Vinogradov and Sazhina created the “Wine and Sazha” project, in 2004 the group “Vinogrades and Alexei” was founded (together with the guitarist Alexei Bortnichuk).

In the 1980s, Herman Vinogradov developed the concept of Bicapo-the combination of the energy of sound, fire and vibrations. Since then, has spent more than 2000 mysterious concerts - “Mysteries” - in Russia, European, USA and Canada.

Under the influence of the Porfiry system, Ivanov created several unusual forms of creative activity, an integral part of which became cold, snow, dousing with cold water, dipping into an ice hole. He conducted poetic readings from the hole "Aerosani", live monuments to Porfiry Ivanov.

The author of the performance of the Land Art-objects of Nikolai Polis-Bashnya, Baikonur (2006) and “Hyperboloid Liberlery” (2012) in the territory of the Nikola-Lenivtsa park.