Artist Dmitry Vrubel died at the age of 63. He, in particular, is known as the author of the graffiti “Lord! Help me survive in this mortal love”, which depicts a kiss between the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Leonid Brezhnev and the leader of the GDR, Erich Honecker. Vrubel's death is reported by journalists on his Facebook page. The Insider's source close to Vrubel confirms the information.
Dmitry Vrubel fell ill, presumably with covid, at the end of June, was hospitalized, but the tests gave a negative result. The heart could not cope with the disease, they installed a ventricular circulatory assist device, and put him into an artificial coma. Vrubel's wife, artist Victoria Timofeeva, wrote about this.
Vrubel is known not only for his famous graffiti. In recent years, he has been doing a lot of virtual exhibitions and metaverses, he planned to create an "Event Museum". According to him, the museum was supposed to become part of the "art of rapid response", when the work is a memorial museum dedicated to some important current news event, its actors, details and details, chronology, various interpretations (in different rooms) and historical parallels. With the possibility of lectures, excursions, as well as updates and additions to the exposition, with the inclusion of comments from participants in the events and the possibility of live video reports on social networks.
He told The Insider about it.
“We recently came up with this - in connection with the Minsk plane,” Vrubel said. - This is a purely museum event. And, interestingly, in this museum, both the wheezing Lukashenka, and the imposing Simonyan, and the dungeons on Akrestsina are the most important exhibits that cannot be dispensed with. Without them, it's like an Auschwitz museum without gas chambers and without photographs of guards."
Vrubel wanted to create a museum in which viewers can organize their own excursions and public lectures and meetings in any museum and news expositions, as well as stream from there, take photos and videos.
He planned to create a metauniverse of the Beautiful Russia of the Future, where there would be several different competitive (up to mutually exclusive) working options for such a device “according to Gudkov, according to Kudrin, according to Khodorkovsky, according to Navalny, according to Kasparov, according to Guriev.” As an example, Vrubel used the model of the administrative and political structure of the FRG.
