Fedir Tetyanych 1942-2007

Fedir Kostiantynovych Tetyanych (Федір Констянтинович Тетянич) or Frypulia (Фрипулья, born Feodosiy Kostiantynovych Tetyanych, 17 February 1942, Knyazhychi village, Kyiv region - 18 February 2007, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian artist (monumentalist, painter, graphic artist, sculptor, performer), poet and philosopher, conceptualist. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR and the Union of Artists of Ukraine (since 1973). He was one of the pioneers of performance and happening in the Soviet space, which he arranged under the exotic mask of a freak, a bright representative of the underground, and later a member of the new Ukrainian wave. As noted by the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine, "Kyivan F. Tetyanych created unusual installations ("freepools") and complemented them with performances in shocking clothes, performing on the streets, in galleries and respectable museums, destroying philistine tastes and stereotypes."