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Fedorov, Vladimir

Vladimir Fedorov was a significant figure in the Russian art group Inspection Medical Hermeneutics. He joined the group in 1991, replacing Yuri Leiderman, and received the status of “Fetish MG”[7]. Fedorov became a senior inspector of the group, which was established in 1987 in the Furmanny squat[5].

Inspection Medical Hermeneutics was an influential art collective that experimented with language and meaning, creating installations and performances that investigated Russian culture during the Glasnost era[1]. The group’s work drew from Russian traditions, fairy tales, psychedelia, and pseudo-scientific methodology, often relating these elements to objects from Western visual culture[1].

Fedorov contributed to the group’s conceptual approach, which included themes such as psychedelic realism, the exploration of time and immortality, and the interplay between life and death[3]. The group’s installations often featured complex ideas, such as portrait galleries of elderly men with astronomical ages and infants with negative ages, embodying concepts of eternity and transcending traditional notions of past and future[3].

Vladimir Fedorov’s involvement with Inspection Medical Hermeneutics lasted until at least 2012, as evidenced by exhibitions featuring the group’s work during that time[3]. His contributions helped shape the group’s unique artistic vision, which combined elements of Russian conceptualism with broader philosophical and cultural explorations.

Citations: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspection_Medical_Hermeneutics [2] https://revistas.comillas.edu/index.php/pensamiento/article/download/20565/18198/47873 [3] https://artmap.com/ovcharenko/exhibition/inspection-medical-hermeneutics-2012 [4] https://jordanrussiacenter.org/blog/cyborgs-weak-cosmists-russian-planet [5] https://garagemca.org/en/event/the-precious-fetish-of-medical-hermeneutics-remembering-vladimir-fyodorov [6] https://chelovek-journal.ru/s0236-20070000392-2-1-ru-164/?sl=en [7] https://www.wikiart.org/en/fedot [8] https://eastwestreport.org/?view=article&id=346%3Aovercoming-fundamentalism&catid=43%3Ae-20-2

(Ukr. Федоров Володимир, born 1963, Sumi, dead, 2018 Kharkiv) Ukrainian-Russian artist, co-founder of the art group “Inspection of Medical Hermeneutics”, Precious fetish of “Medical Hermeneutics” [1], in 2014 moved to Moscow, in 2015 have worked with Ivana Babushkina at House of Artists on Vavilov 65 [2].

Bio

He was born in the in the family of a mathematician and engineer. In the mid-1970s, the family moved to Odessa. In the late 1970s, along with his classmate Alexei Kotsievsky, the direction “Creinistic Realism” was created. In 1982, Fedorov introduces Leonid Voitsekhov with Sergei Anufriev: from that moment the Odessa conceptual group emerges. In the mid-1980s, the persecuted bodies, because of their participation in apartment exhibitions, moved to Kharkov. Since 1991, he became a senior inspector of the Inspectorate “Medical hermeneutics” instead of Yuri Leiderman. Last years Vladimir Fedorov lived and worked in Moscow. In the structure of the group the Inspectorate “Medical hermeneutics” was given the status of “Fetish MG”

Cover of the memorial event “The Precious Fetish of “Medical Hermeneutics”. Remembering Vladimir Fyodorov”

Photo: Maxim Tuzhikov / Indexmod Encyclopedia

Vladimir Fedorov (Phedot), “Cloud Rorschach”, 2010

Photo: Sergei Ugolnikov / Around Art

Conspectus

Year	City
1998	Kharkiv
1999	Odessa
2000	Moscow
2015	Solovki
2017	Moscow

Vladimir Fedorov, fragment of documentary interview

Photo: Peter Shirkovskiy / Colta / Vimeo

Fedorov, Vladimir

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