Gelman Gallery exhibition closes with a

31.05.2012

« Motherland "opened

to place exposure eventually came to the building site on the Red Avenue, 220 (block 10), where the end of last year, settled for many years "Siberian Fair". Here the "Homeland", in fact, looks better than in the museum or the airport, "the North».

Recall exhibition originally was supposed to be a major part of the museum and open to the night of 18 to 19 May in local history . There's a picture, and work is already collected, when the Regional Ministry of Culture said that the event is a state museum site is transferred to an indefinite period, because it can cause "serious divisions in society." Exposure in a hurry had to disassemble and transport in an inactive terminal airport. But even there, "Homeland" is not caught on: the owner of the building unexpectedly terminated the lease. According to the organizers of the exhibition, so as not to spoil relations with the authorities (mainly persecutor of Modern Art, they believe the governor Vasiliy Yurchenko). According to the official version of the same - because of the emergency state of the object.

Only May 21, it became known that the "Homeland" with the support of Mikhail Prokhorov's still open in Novosibirsk - in the former building of the "Siberian Fair", where runs until the end of June. An easy life in the exhibition is clearly not: tonight it going to picket the representatives of public organization - the "People's Cathedral", Novosibirsk branch of the Trade Union of citizens of Russia and the Eurasian Youth Union. These people claim that presented at the "homeland" of the picture offend the feelings of believers, as well as veterans who are going to once again call on government officials - to close the show. "The shares will be asked about the responsibility of the Ministry of Culture, headed by Yaroslavtseva for facilitating corruption of children and young people and provoked a split in society! Also on the picket will be shown the role of moral and vile destroyers of Russian culture - Gelman, Mizin, shorebirds, and the company! "- Has already announced one of the community members - active opponents of the exhibition Yuri Zadoya. "Before you disassemble the exhibition at the Airport" North "I took tours of the" motherland. " A man came and looked at the whole show, and then came up and said, I have not got offended. I asked, what would? And he said that he read a lot of negative feedback and decided to check out. I wish that people no longer trusted their immediate experience, not someone else's stories about the immorality of the exhibition "- wished the coordinator of the Siberian Center for Contemporary Art Sergey Samoilenko.

Gelman told yesterday admitted" Expert Online », that it is not scares such reactions. What is easy to believe, if you remember the recent scandalous opening of the exhibition Icons in Krasnodar. At the same time and he Gelman, and the organizers of the "motherland" in Novosibirsk do not hide that the provincial authorities, who somehow put contemporary art in the region, the obstacles are clearly affected by ignorance and try to express solidarity with the traditionalist and fundamentalist groups in society. By the way, the exhibition is enriched with printouts from various websites publishing the toll-houses "homeland" in the capital of Siberia - their actions clearly joined the exposition officials.

Walking down the hall yesterday, and again carefully examined the picture, I could not understand why they caused such a heated debate. For example, a collage of famous "Four Seasons" made Dubosarsky and Vinogradov part of the most famous paintings of Russian painting - you can find there, and boy, bathing the red horse, and Ivan the Terrible, weeping over the corpse of the murdered son, and upset the boy from "Once two ". All these images are even known from childhood, even those who do not visit galleries and museums. Some work may be estimated as the resonance, the series has a clear political overtones, some cover topics of faith and religion. "The difference between traditional and modern cultures, is in aesthetic categories. Categories Traditional Art - this is something beautiful, sublime, tragic. The Art of the XXI century removes these categories and shows the other - physical, sexual, of particular importance factors of the pain and absurdity. Can it be or not to accept, but then the art - it is generally something that will not leave people indifferent, "- explained in an interview with the" Expert-Siberia "head of the department of cultural history of the Novosibirsk State University Natalie Bartos.

After the exhibition will travel to Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk. And there will be exposition of the museum exhibit in the city center. "Krasnoyarsk freer and cultural area. We have grown up to watch any works of art and discuss them "- has already said, anticipating possible objections, the center's director, Mikhail Szubski.