The artist Viktor Vasnetsov born 1848 (!!!!!), was found posthumously guilty of "extremism" by the Lenin's Regional Court in the city of Kirov, on the basis of a professional expertise of his painting "The meeting of prince Oleg with the witch". The expertise states that the painting is an appeal for submission of the state to pagan powers.
http://www.ruskline.ru/news_rl/2010/05/15/viktor_vasnecov_ekstremist/
The Russian Patriarch Kiril, blames the intelligentsia for the decrease of Russia:
“We need to teach our society a new view on the world and the human being, grounding on the the traditions of our people and our country. The first to be thought is our intelligenTsiao, Which Became a foundation and a source of the national DECREASE, and Whose Minds Are caught by destructive, foreign and godless ideas. The intelligentsia is to blame for the destruction of Russia. "
http://rian.ru/religion/20100911/274682885.html
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Kates Playground Ground
Hi all, I hoped that you could help spread the protest against censorship and criminalization in the art, in this case is concerned Mavromati Oleg. I have translated this text today of the page where you can sign up for the cause. On it there is enough information on the situation. Possibly
several arti ... stas held next Monday, 20 September same action in the Russian embassies in different cities like Berlin, NY and Amsterdam. In Spain, this action would make me in Madrid or Barcelona. If you know of people who might be interested in solidarity and protest going to pass over this link, please. I hope your cothis is the emergency situation: Mavromati was reported by the Russian Consulate in Sofia (Bulgaria) that are not going to renew his passport. According to the Russian Consulate, the renewal of his passport was rejected because Mavromati has been avoiding trial in the Russian Federation by the performance in 2000. If you go back to Russia and brought to trial Mavromati was sentenced to a term of 3-5 years in prison. Mavromati
currently lives in Sofia with his wife and partner, the Bulgarian artist Boryana Dragoeva. The couple is an internationally recognized video artists, Boryana is also currently a doctoral student at Rensselaerhuman rights. "
Article 282 (for" incitement to religious hatred and offending the religious sentiments of believers. "Has been successfully used to condemn other artists, curators and journalists.
The most recent was against the organizers of the art exhibition''''Forbidden Art at the Sakharov Museum in Moscow in 2007: http://bit.ly/dDoxHg
Despite the broad support of the arts community Russian and international court, "said Yuri Samodurov, then Director of the Sakharov Museum and Andrei Yerofeev, then Head of Contemporary Art at the Tretyakov Gallery
several arti ... stas held next Monday, 20 September same action in the Russian embassies in different cities like Berlin, NY and Amsterdam. In Spain, this action would make me in Madrid or Barcelona. If you know of people who might be interested in solidarity and protest going to pass over this link, please. I hope your cothis is the emergency situation: Mavromati was reported by the Russian Consulate in Sofia (Bulgaria) that are not going to renew his passport. According to the Russian Consulate, the renewal of his passport was rejected because Mavromati has been avoiding trial in the Russian Federation by the performance in 2000. If you go back to Russia and brought to trial Mavromati was sentenced to a term of 3-5 years in prison. Mavromati
currently lives in Sofia with his wife and partner, the Bulgarian artist Boryana Dragoeva. The couple is an internationally recognized video artists, Boryana is also currently a doctoral student at Rensselaerhuman rights. "
Article 282 (for" incitement to religious hatred and offending the religious sentiments of believers. "Has been successfully used to condemn other artists, curators and journalists.
The most recent was against the organizers of the art exhibition''''Forbidden Art at the Sakharov Museum in Moscow in 2007: http://bit.ly/dDoxHg
Despite the broad support of the arts community Russian and international court, "said Yuri Samodurov, then Director of the Sakharov Museum and Andrei Yerofeev, then Head of Contemporary Art at the Tretyakov Gallery
What Qualities Make A Good Nurse
Oleg should not have been charged nor should he now be forced into the status of an international refugee without papers. I have worked with him in NYC at Exit Art and in the Netherlands at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. He is dedicated, nuanced and challengingly poetic. Oleg's performance art, like all art, can be read only under the multifaceted lights of social perception.
For one viewer the use of Oleg's own body for a sacrificial expression of this sort is a type of performance reserved for saints alone, so he should be sainted. For another, it grounds all messianic status to the level of human dedication to myriad philosophies , making the miraculous into mere profane advertisement.
Friday, September 10, 2010
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