Tivour of Shaginurov: We want to see what not doglyadel power
update: 26-09-2016 (20:40)
The prohibition of the exhibition of Jock Sturges and the news that the FAS fined the organizers of the exhibition Bosch on 100 thousand rubles for “obscene ads” were not something outrageous in the cultural life of the capital, we have long been accustomed, and seeming resigned to the fact that a group of citizens decides for us what we can watch, and what is not.
Каспаров.Ru have prepared a short review of successful and unsuccessful attempts to ban to Express their opinions by means of exhibitions.
In 2003, the Sakharov center was destroyed the exhibition “Caution religion”. Was arrested “thugs” Mikhail Lyukshin and Anatoly Sakin. The detainees were accused of hooliganism, but later the Presnensky court has refused the charges. At the same time, the Tagansky court, the organizers of the exhibition, Yuri Samodurov and Lyudmila vasilovsky was found guilty of inciting religious hatred.
The rivalry continued in 2006. One of the most controversial in the history of Putin’s Russia was the exhibition “Forbidden art” by Andrei Erofeev and Yuri Samodurov. Taking into account the experience of the exhibition “Caution: religion!”, the authors issued a warning that the exhibition may offend the feelings of believers, in addition, exhibits were hidden behind an opaque stands, to see them, the visitors were forced to “peek” through the holes.
However, this time, believers could not be offended. At the initiative of the activists of the movement “people’s Cathedral” against the organizers was prosecuted. The trial caused a lot of controversy in society between supporters of radical art and adherents of Orthodox morality. The sentencing was accompanied by the spreading of cockroaches in the courtroom members of the group “War” and a procession around the courthouse, organized by supporters of the prosecution. Samodurov and Erofeev fined in 150 and 200 thousand rubles.
In February 2012 the Cathedral of Christ the Savior was held a punk-prayer of the feminist group Pussy Riot. Anticlerical action caused a new wave of confrontation between the supporters of Orthodox Orthodoxy and their opponents. Planting satanic girls” continued the glorious deeds of the struggle blasphemers.
While the participants of the punk prayer was already sitting their “dvushechku” in September 2012, the Brewery has organized the exhibition “Spiritual abuse”, which featured “actual icons” depicting participants scandalous the punk-groups.
During the opening of the exhibition was blocked arrived to the place of the coming of the Cossacks and “Orthodox activists”, the exhibition “Cossacks” were unable to get because the guards did not let them in without tickets. In the end, the exhibition could not get and many of those who wanted to support contemporary art. However, among the visitors was a man who illuminated one of the icons of Pussy Riot, after which the organizers said that the destruction of this facility would be a sacrilege.
Chronicle of Orthodox attacks on the exhibition continued in August 2015, when the activists of “God’s will” made the attack on the exhibition “Sculpture, which we do not see”, held at the walls of the Kremlin in the Arena. Lovers of God broke four bas-relief work of Vadim sidura. Believers are not stopped, that the author was a veteran and the invalid of the great Patriotic war and those who believe in person.
“This blasphemous exhibition – for example, Jesus Christ is depicted in an indecent way. We want this exhibition was closed to the law on protection of feelings of believers really adhered to in the main exhibition center of the country was not such a dirty, hard mockery of Jesus Christ and the Holy”, – said the leader of the rioters Dmitry Larionov, also known as Enteo.
Criticism from the Church are not only contemporary artists, but the “old masters”.
In April 2012, the Metropolitan of Novosibirsk and Berdsk Tikhon criticized the exhibition of erotic prints by Pablo Picasso’s “Temptation”, held in the Museum of Novosibirsk. According to the Hierarch at the exhibition were presented the “all kinds of perversions.”
As explained by exhibition curator Denis Lukashin: “You know, Picasso, indeed, a great artist and this series of prints was created, began to be established as an idea, as an illustration to the novel of Ferdinand de Rojas “Celestina”, but he didn’t stop. Picasso made a large series of works.
They are naturally quite expressive and quite Frank. But, on the other hand, Picasso still writes in such a manner, in which, probably, actually, even some vulgar things can be expressed, on the one hand, rare, and with the other hand gently enough, that is, in principle, outright vulgarity, which can be seen on some posters or something, no
Also Lukashin expressed the view that the decision about whether to drive or not to drive their children to such events in the hands of their parents.
Later Picasso in company with Henri Matisse tried to get to the exhibition space of Arkhangelsk, but here “Orthodox hierarchs” was on duty. Criticism of the exhibition “the Line of Love. The eroticism in the works of the great masters of the twentieth century” was made by Archpriest Eugene Sokolov. According to the priest, the exhibition opening coincided with the beginning of lent, the more inappropriate that disgusting image side by side with the Orthodox shrines.
In 2016, got also another artist Hieronymus Bosch. Advertising of the exhibition “Revived paintings: the Garden of delights” has caused a storm of criticism from “guardians of high morality”. The government of Moscow has demanded from the organizers to behave decently and advertising indecent artistic creations demanded to remove.
“When we were preparing the exhibition dedicated to Michelangelo, the city placed posters with statue of David. As you know, David, there is not quite dressed. Was afraid that the posters will be removed. But no, they stayed there without problems”
– surprised in turn by the organizers.
Apparently, courting the same trouble David, the organizers Bolhovskoy “Orgy”. One of the residents of the cultural capital protested uncivilized behavior of plastic twin mikelangello David and demanded to cover the private parts of the statue. Resourceful artists from Saint Petersburg the next day covered the genitals of the subject, characteristic of statues of our country – cap. However, Petersburgers voted against the vestments of the statue.
Extreme irritation clerics were also science fair project on the human body.
In 2014 In Krasnodar cancel the international anatomical exhibition “Mysteries of the body. The universe inside”
According to the “Orthodox Union”, the exhibition was a mockery of the dead bodies, while those in life gave consent to use their bodies.
Like the exhibition “the human Body” angered the activists of the movement “people’s Cathedral” in Saint-Petersburg,
“Aesthetics of the morgue – not the cultural program of the Northern capital. Is the sacrament of death, which cannot be tampered with. These objects can cause serious psychological harm to the viewer, especially for teenagers
– said the activists, who didn’t attend, apparently, informed the Cabinet of curiosities established by Peter I.
In turn, the organizers said that the exhibition was aimed not mockery.
“It’s a training manual. Promise to show the true inner world of a person. We compare healthy and diseased organs”,
– said they.
Officials and politicians was no less nervous than the representatives of the Church.
Known at least two cases of prohibition of the exposure image of President Putin.
In 2013, the exhibition of street art “voice of the streets”, held in the cafe “Town”, submitted image of a person similar to the President of Russia, eating the brain. The next day after opening the café came a man and demanded to remove the image
The same image, “exposing the President in a bad light” deputies “Fair Russia” demanded to remove from the exhibition “voice of the streets”, held in Omsk.
In 2015 the exhibition-sale “the Christmas miracle” was not allowed Vladimir Putin’s portrait and the portrait of an unknown APE. The author Asya Malevich claimed that her works do not have political overtones
In 2013, was banned in the Perm pre-Olympic exhibition “Welcome Sochi”, held in the framework of the festival “White nights organized by Marat Gelman.
City officials found Russophobic works of Krasnoyarsk artist Vasily Slonova “Welcome! Sochi 2014”.
The elephants tried to depict the Olympics to be what she can to see the foreign audience, among the exhibits were the images of bloody birches, monstrous athlete-Cheburashka and the Olympic rings in the form of loops of the gallows.
Of course, could not be different in the field of the fight against “obscene” exhibitions of the former Deputy of St. Petersburg legislative Assembly, and now a state Duma Deputy Vitaly Milonov.
In August 2013, Milonov demanded the closure does not separate exhibitions, and a Museum.
MP angered opened in St. Petersburg on 26 August “Museum of power”. The Museum opened the exhibition “the Rulers”, one of the works made in rainbow colors, was dedicated to geoanalitica. Also on display was presented a portrait of Putin in the shirt and Valentina Matviyenko “sosulyami”.
In June 2014, Milonov demanded to cancel the exhibition of the erotic industry in St. Petersburg. According to the Deputy, the exhibition could cause insult to residents, “who do not accept the public display of shameless and the discussion of their own intimate life.”
In 2015, the restless, the Deputy demanded to check the World Press Photo. The exhibition, according to Milonov, clearly were political in nature.
Policy especially angered won first place the work of Danish photographer Mads Nissen, which depicts a gay couple in St. Petersburg during an intimate encounter.
However, the reason for the closure of the exhibitions in Russia was not always anti-clerical and acute political work. Also extreme caution must be organizers of exhibitions devoted to the events of the Second world war.
In April 2015, was was banned the exhibition of British and American photographers, “Triumph and tragedy: the allies in the Second World war”. Officially the exhibition was cancelled for technical reasons, but according to the source “Kommersant” in law enforcement, the exhibition has caused complaints from the authorities.
“The Museum was closed a Federal structure, on direct orders from Moscow, – said the interlocutor of the edition. Demand was politically motivated”.
This version of the prohibition of the exhibition also confirmed the mayor of Yekaterinburg Yevgeny Roizman.
“As far as I know, this was done at the instigation of Moscow”,
– Roizman told journalists portal E1.
In the Yekaterinburg Department of the FSB involvement in the injunction denied, but the mayor promised to find another refuge for the reviled of the exhibition.
Also in may 2015 in Moscow was closed the exhibition “We won.” Without a warrant the police arrived at the exhibition, but not to look at the exhibits, and in order to take them home.
The exhibition in particular was presented grinder is absorbing the flesh of soldiers and letting out instead of stuffing a St. George ribbon.
Of course, this is not a complete list of all of the closed exhibitions. Police, officials of all stripes, Orthodox hierarchs, the supporters of Orthodox morality, officers and others continue to decide for all of society to look and what to look obscene, harmful, you just can’t and it get frustrating.
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