Russian Orthodox Church has declared the right of another building of the cathedral in the 1990s, constantly reminding themselves of. The recent public outcry forced the government to distribute the media speculation about the signing of $ 5 millionth kontrakta on to design the new building PGHG with known Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. However, no information about the concept of the museum, budget, and srokax istochnikax finance the construction of the building was not made public. All public inquiries into the Administration of the Perm Region on this information have been ignored. At the moment the gallery has no legal rights to the building, which is in August, it had been rented by the church under the patronage of the Permian authorities. 100 years of artistic and cultural archive is in dire straits!
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INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC
in support of the Perm State Art Gallery
Development of the conflict
In 2010, the Federal Property Management Agency has refused to renew the contract of the Perm State Art Gallery (PGHG) on the building of Holy Transfiguration Cathedral. In August 2011, after signing a lease on the building of the Cathedral, the church began to carry out rituals in the middle of the gallery, which led to the removal of the central part of the museum exhibition. In the absence of a new building for the museum, PGHG was on the verge of closing.
After the scandal broke, vice president of the Perm region, Mr. Boris Milgram officially declared that the church services at the museum had been authorized by the administration of the Perm region, which okazala pressure on the leadership picture for the church. Minister of Culture of the Perm region, Mr. Nicholas Beginners, personally participated in the inauguration of the church services at the museum, openly admitted that he sees nothing wrong in carrying out religious rituals in the middle of civil institutions. Ha last week, in response to rumors of dismissal of Mr. nA Novichkova, Mr. Gelman, by contrast, suggested that Mr. Rookie dolzhen expected move up the career ladder. It should be noted that earlier Mr. Gelman, as if nothing had happened, signed an open letter in support of the public PGHG declaring authorized Mr. Milgram and Mr. newbie interference in the affairs of the church gallery illegal. All three officials promote the development of "Perm - cultural capital", while Mr. Gelman is the leader and ideologue.
This confusion has led to increased action of the public, within a couple of weeks, which attracted hundreds of signatures on a letter in defense of PGHG that allowed church services to stop and return to work was shot on location.
In late September, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev personally responded to the situation of cultural institutions located in buildings of religious significance, stressing that the museum should not be thrown into the street, and that local government will bear full responsibility for the situation. Currently, the legal rights to the building of the Council's gallery is still not back at any time PGHG may be subject to eviction.
Russian Orthodox Church has declared the right of the cathedral as early as the 1990s, and then constantly reminded of it. Public protest against the situation with the gallery forced authorities to extend the Permian in the media rumors that they are about to be signed $ 5 million contract to design the museum at the famous Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. However, any information in connection with the new concept of the museum, budget, timelines and funding sources have not yet made public. All public requests for such information to the Administration of Perm Region, as well as personally, Mr. Milgram was ignored.
Gallery may be subject to eviction at any time.
Collection
Sobranie PGHG, building on the collection of the Perm Scientific and Industrial Museum in 1902, includes 45,000 artifacts collected by art historians and researchers for more than a century. The collection includes unique pieces reflecting the history of artistic and cultural life and Perm region, including paintings XVII-XIX centuries, rare Orthodox icons, ancient manuscripts and early printed books, a collection of paintings of the Permian of the twentieth century, watercolor Ural 1960-90's unique collection of the Perm books, crafts and Ural stone sculpture. Special place in the Permian occupy a unique wooden gods, dating from the XVII-XIX centuries and predstavlyayuschie a hybrid of Christianity and paganism, which is a feature of the culture of the region harakternoy that time.
Among other things, houses a collection PGHG Austro-German, Italian, Flemish painting, Russian avant-garde of the twentieth century, including works by Liubov Popova, Natalya Goncharova, Ivan Cluny, Robert Falk, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Aristarchus Lentulov, Pyotr Konchalovsky, and the painting of St. Petersburg and Moscow schools.
Perm - European Capital of Culture. Why not?
Although the problem with the new building was badly PGHG back in 2010, in June 2011, Perm had to perform two other ambitious project: $ 104,000,000th reconstruction of the Opera House and $ 23,000,000th reconstruction of two-year-old museum PERMM. These two figures are the sum exceeds the annual budget for the culture of the Perm region is almost three times ($ 53 million in 2011, the New York Times) and negatively correlated with the budgetary wage workers PGHG, averaging about $ 300 a month.
Both projects are scheduled to begin in 2011-2012 and completed by 2013-2015, while the design project PERMM was 95%ready in June. It is important to emphasize that neither Opera nor PERMM never faced an immediate threat of relocation or closure. Regardless of other arguments, giving priority to PERMM invaluable cultural and historical archive, obviously, requires additional arguments.
Assessing the situation, one can not but wonder - how Perm determine its cultural priorities? And if all these costly plans, in principle, achievable?
Perm not disclose information that should be available to the public
So far, no reliable sources of funding called the Opera House renovation, PERMM PGHG or construction. Perm Governor Oleg Chirkunov expects the local budget will cover about 50%, and the rest of the money will come from the state. However, in September this year, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said that such projects should not expect financial support from the state. Assuming construction PGHG will cost no less reconstruction Opera, the approximate cost of the three projects will be about $ 250 million, ie approximately 14%of the entire annual budget of the Perm region ($ 1.766 million, the New York Times). Not made public and information on operational costs for all these grandiose constructions after their introduction into service, further information on this case also is not publicly available.
Attempt of the Committee to investigate the situation with the concept, as well as the actual construction of the new opportunities brought PGHG a very important result. Was almost impossible to identify not only the details of the new project PGHG or the manner in which budget adjustments are formed by culture, but the distribution of budget funding between the cultural sectors, institutions and projects - information that should be known to the general public - there is no publicly available on the website of the institutions . Committee members and their supporters have sent numerous requests for the deputy director of the program "Perm - Capital of Culture" Anastasia Efremova. It was also written an official letter to her supervisor, Mr. Boris Milgram. So far, no response to our inquiries we have received.
We ask for your help
We understand and appreciate the desire to Perm to high European standards in the cultural and social development. But these standards must be the result of the preservation and development of local culture, rather than the proclamation of the modern PR technologies sredstvami fact of their direct presence. It is impossible to draw any conclusions about the "Permian experiment" without disclosing the true priorities of Perm, one of whom must be open and democratic government of Perm in relation to community initiatives. Discussion of these issues and clarify the true meaning of "Cultural Capital of Europe" would be very helpful to Perm.
We do not know whether the Perm money for a new building PGHG. But while the Perm not make an official statement, alternative fund-raising campaign for PGHG can not be initiated and the museum will continue to be under threat. Immediate disclosure of government information in the new building PGHG can also help to establish a dialogue with the church and trust the church to prevent the intensification of the crisis.
We need your support in preserving the collection as part of the European PGHG artistic and cultural heritage. Any help in this regard, including the signatures to the open letter, and takzhe dissemination within the community and the press very important to us. We may need thousands of signatures to the government began to take action.
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY COMMITTEE
in support of the Perm State Art Gallery
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