Overview
- The death was announced on his Facebook page on November 23, with no cause disclosed.
- RIA Novosti reported he died at home in Tel Aviv at the age of 86.
- Born in Moscow in 1939, he emerged as a leading ideologist of the Second Russian Avant‑Garde and described his method as “magical symbolism.”
- After emigrating to Israel in 1971, he founded the Leviathan art group in Jerusalem and published a journal tied to the project.
- His works are held by major museums including the Tretyakov Gallery, the Pushkin Museum, the State Russian Museum and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and his 1963–1971 diaries have been published.