Work Avdyei Ter-Oganyan not allowed to be exhibited in the Louvre
 

The exhibition "Russian counterpoint» (Le contrepoint Russe) at the Louvre will not be the artist's works Avdyei Ter-Oganyan. Told OPENSPACE.RU CEO of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA) Michael Mindlin.
NCCA, along with the Louvre is the initiator and organizer of the exhibition, which will take place in the Year of Russia in France October 14, 2010 to January 15, 2011. Co-organizer is also a fund of Stella Art Foundation.
It will feature the works of Alexander Brodsky, Eric Bulatov, Emilia and Ilya Kabakov, Andrei Monastery, Paul Pepperstein and other artists.
The decision to withdraw works Ter-Oganyan, the head of the NCCA has been adopted as a result of negotiations between representatives of the Ministry of Culture and Rosokhrankultura from the Russian side and the president of the Louvre and the French Ambassador to Russia from the French side.
"Ministry of Culture and Rosokhrankultura not miss these works in relation to their content. President of the Louvre, it was absolutely correctly taken and done with his consent "- told Mindlin.
He also suggested that the initiative belonged to the president of the Louvre, Henri Loirette (Henri Loyrette).
According to CEO of NCCA, confiscated works were "unfriendly, provocative nature. It is not just about the insult to the Russian authorities, but there was still work that stirs up religious strife: there was an abstract image of a green background, and it can be read as a negative statement against Islam. "
Michael Mindlin also noted that Russian officials would not interfere exhibiting works Ter-Oganyan abroad, if they were taken private. "Because they are taken by government agencies, it becomes an unwanted political overtones", - explained the CEO of NCCA.
As reported by journalist Maria OPENSPACE.RU Kravtsov, curator of the exhibition "Russian counterpoint, chief curator of the Louvre, in charge of contemporary art, Marie-Laure Bernadak (Marie-Laure Bernadac) apprised of the decision.
Ter-Oganyan was scandalous glory thanks to the action "Young atheist" 1998: Then he chopped with an ax cardboard copies of icons in protest against the commercialization of spirituality. Against him was prosecuted for inciting religious hatred, after which the artist emigrated to the Czech Republic.
(Lenta.Ru & OpenSpace.ru)

According to another version they were real icons: printing, but covered in the church.

A good advertising works by the artist, and not think.
That's the way to unwind.

These work in 2004

They have already taken part in the exhibition RUSSIA in the Guggenheim Bilbao, in ChelsiMuzeume.

A series of "radical abstraction"
 

That's where most of the works in this series: http://artchronika.ru/news.asp?idnews=530 Works Avdei (though less extreme) are in a prominent place in the hall of the Department of Contemporary Art at the Tretyakov Gallery. This general picture is the act of leadership. A push out artists from their own country - the last thing. My country is exactly the benefit is not.

I wonder why denied such innocuous works.
Freedom there is in Europe, is less than here.

Samvel, tests under the pictures read + :....." question is whether the French curators will go against the Russian partners, this exhibition pays the Ministry of Culture, as I ponimayu.Po reportedly will seek a compromise and put up other pictures ..... "

Yes texts is a joke.
Are they provocative here is these who calmly presented in Moscow.
Vobschem do not understand what they do.

They are not harmless, and they're not all a joke .. seriously and with overtones