Background
Sidur was born in Yekaterinoslav (currently Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) to a Jewish father and Russian mother.
Sidur was born in Yekaterinoslav (currently Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) to a Jewish father and Russian mother.
Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry.
Sidur is the creator of a style named Grob-Art (Coffin-Art). He also left a book of poetry The Happiest Autumn (Самая Счастливая Осень) and a memoir Monuments to the Current State (Памятники Современному Состоянию). In 1942 he was drafted into the Red Army and fought in the battles of World World War II near his hometown.
After being wounded in the jaw by a bullet, he was discharged as a disabled veteran.
During the early period, he created realistic ceramic sculpture. In the 1960s he produced the sculpture series of Monuments (Монументы), almost all of which are now indeed public monuments in the squares of Russia and the West.
In that work and the related series Disabled (Инвалиды), he tried to condense artistic form to a symbol, a sign, or a formula. Later he worked on his own philosophy centered around the artist, prophet of 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 a myth. He also shot an underground movie based on the book He worked on sculpture series Manitoba and Woman, Motherhood.
In the 1980s, shortly before his death, he wrote a book of poetry titled The Most Happy Autumn (Самая Счастливая Осень).
Since the 1960s Sidur"s works became known in the West. 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 legacy of Sidur was recognized as a national treasure.
Soon he became famous.
In 1957 he became a member of the Union of Artists of Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
