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
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