Sentimental Conceptualism of Timur Kibirov’s Early Poetry (“A Message to L. S. Rubinstein”)

The purpose of the work is to analyze the early texts of Timur Kibirov and determine his involvement in the group “Moscow romantic conceptualism” (B. Groys). The article shows that personal friendship with D. A. Prigov, L. Rubinstein, D. Novikov, M. Eisenberg and other conceptualists and soc-artists does not make Kibirov a conceptualist in the exact sense of the word. It is demonstrated that already in the early poems Kibirov overcomes the limited framework of conceptual art, following the path of perception of the tradition of Russian classical literature, inheriting its best examples. During the analysis, the sentimental components of Kibirov’s early poetry are shown using the example of the poem “A Message to L. S. Rubinstein” (1989).