Theoretician and thinker of the Second Russian Avant-garde, one of the creators of Israeli conceptualism, famous writer and artist Mikhail Grobman died in Israel, at the age of 86.
“With pain in our hearts, we inform you that Mikhail Grobman passed away this morning (November 23 – ) at home. The bright memory of him will forever remain with us,” said a publication on his Facebook page (banned in Russia, owned by the Meta group, recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation).
Mikhail Grobman was born in 1939 in Moscow. In 1971, he emigrated to Israel, where he edited Leviathan magazine and was a member of the editorial board of Mirror magazine. He is the author of more than 2 thousand graphic and painting works, as well as hundreds of poems and theoretical articles. Grobman's works are exhibited at the Tretykov Gallery, the State Museum of Fine Arts named after AS Pushkin, the Russian Museum, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris.
