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An Open Letter V.Kopacheva.
Very honest about the history of the gallery A3!
 In 1989 I came to work in the exhibition hall of "Arbat" (now Gallery A3) ml.nauchnym sotrudnikom.Do that I, after studying at the institute, he worked at the Institute of Artistic industry in the (former) ul.Vorovskogo.Nadoeli me NII officials from the crafts, and live here, it suggested that the exhibition of contemporary artists. I myself have participated in many exhibitions of young artists while in the Arena, at the Kuznetsk bridge, CHA, Palace of Youth. Joined the Youth Association of the Union of Artists of the USSR. At the Institute, I am a freelance artist with a membership card, did not hold and I am very involved in the work of the exhibition hall, where there was plenty of suggestions on the organization of exhibitions. Hall is actively preparing an exhibition of artists 20s-30s "Group 13". I went to collectors, heirs, museums agreeing to transfer the work to the exhibition. All to whom I addressed a perceived idea of ​​the exhibition with enthusiasm. It was strange to see a live classic, great artists and their close relatives. The exhibition was opened sostoyalas.Na T.Mavrina, B.Rybchenkov, N.Semashkevich, many well-known kollektsionerov.Zal published catalog and the poster accurately replicate the design of the 20-ies. I painted the cover of the catalog manually writing major shrift.Kompyuterov while non-existent. In the summer of '89 I was appointed director of the hall, tentatively called the district committee of the party. Gallery exhibitions began to do potokom.V while members of the Union of Artists of the exhibition had to agree not only in the Main Office of the culture of Moscow City and the Union of Artists of the USSR on Gogol bulvare.Chinovniki of the central board and the district party committee is not often required to remove the work "undesirables" (now recognized classics.) We were shooting at them, and then hung up again. With art critic Vitaly Patsyukovym succeeded in 89-90 GG make a series of exhibitions of artists Pribaltiki.V 90-92 GG spent many collective exhibitions in which a large curatorial staff work conducted Bazileva gallery Irina and Eugene Gorokhovskiy. The best known at that time in Moscow, the collective exhibition "The official portrait of the transition period" (curator I.Bazileva) we have defined themselves as modern art gallery. Putsch '91 has changed beyond recognition our country. In '92 it was slomano.Galereya continued to work and do one show after another. While we are enthusiastic about the changes, hoping that the bureaucratic arbitrariness in the art will never happen again. No one will stomp their feet in the galleries looking at the work Yankilevsky ... And the first time it was. Then again, went to instructions "from above" ..-Where is the exhibition for the holidays, and strictly on the topic? But ... back to a reality.
 In the 80-90 GG Departments of Culture, Moscow district executive committees, which are legal entities created during the restructuring of the exhibition halls and other institutions of culture in the '92 ceased to exist. All 25 directors (without portfolio), the exhibition halls of Moscow gathered in the Main Directorate of Culture in Moscow (now the Department of Culture of Moscow) and ordered to register their establishment as a legal entity. Was promised by the Office (Glaucus) great autonomy in work content. We believe. However, it soon became clear that a district executive departments of culture believed in the eternal power of district party committees and were in no hurry to put it mildly, as legal persons in the Soviet period, arrange for a lease on the premises of its subordinate institutions of culture, as well as contracts for security and utility bills.
So, with the advent of modern times in 1992 and the reorganization of the Department of Culture in Moscow found that A3 Gallery does not have any actual documents on its premises at 39 because Starokonyushenny orders of the executive committee of the creation of the exhibition hall "Arbat" in 1986 was twice canceled and replaced by something unknown. The newly created Department of Culture and Art of CAD in the face of R.Krylova not taken from the Acts of the Executive Committee of the Department of Culture of the Kiev District Council any documents to showroom A3 Gallery.
I remember, came to the former department of culture in '92, there is complete devastation, as after bitvy.Valyayutsya print shtampy.Zashel the personnel department there is none. On the floor of a large pile of folders bumag.V this heap of employment records of employees Gallery A3. I took them and brought to the gallery. In a large room where the boss's office was formerly the Department of Culture Motov V. sitting at the table muzhik.Sprashivayu him about the Clerk, and he does not know nichego.Zhmet shoulders. I thought, cool protection. I have something most do not have any document that I am the director (without portfolio). However, a couple of weeks, when I came to byvsh.Otdel culture byvsh.ulitsu Tchaikovsky, which unfolded near the tunnel, the main battlefield coup 91, there was already a head of Romuald Krylov. We know each other. The urgency and I decided to go it alone.
I called and asked to come to the gallery Supervisor liquidated Executive Committee Culture Department V. Pestrikovu.Ona was a man with svyazyami.Ya asked her help urgently, in hindsight, to make the lease of the Division of Culture of the Kiev district executive committee to DEZom on the estates of the exhibition hall at Starokonyushenny per.39. Miracle svershilos.Dogovor was made in a week, "according to the rules" at the time. As it turned out there were real difficulties. Moreover, it was necessary to find people who are no longer in power or almost lost, but it turned out that the official Board of the Kiev district council, which then-new decree abolishing the old, the room of the exhibition hall is listed by the Council for the veterans division of the national militia. Exhibition Hall, if not strange, for some documents, the Executive Committee from 1986 to 1992 temporarily located in a house in Porohovschikova Starokonyushny lane. However, it was in the house, and had always worked Porohovschikova Veterans Council Division, and the exhibition hall there never was.
 And then it was useful exemption letter from the Board of Veterans Division Strarokonyushenny per.39 premises, where it's always worked for the showroom. This letter, which I personally typed on a typewriter, "Yatran" in 1989, he signed with the President of the Veterans division and he placed a triangular stamp, was necessary and made it possible to save the main document A3 Gallery in 1992. The Board of Veterans division in '89 was a good run in the house Porohovschikova to its reconstruction, and they are easily abandoned the premises, where he worked as an exhibition hall. However, while the VV Pestrikova, when signing the lease agreement, filed a letter of refusal is not none of ispolkomovtsev not dare to sign a contract. As I have from 89 to '92 has kept this "valuable" the paper did not understand. I keep a copy to this day.
Next come the new boss (in byvsh.Otdel Culture), where there are placed the Department for Culture and the Arts CAO and pass R.Krylovu employment records of employees of the exhibition hall. I told him what to do Charter uchrezhdeniya.On soglasilsya.Za couple of days on the typewriter "Yatran" I typed in the Charter of the Municipal Exhibition Hall "Gallery A3" of the Department of Culture and the Arts CAO. R.Krylov issued an Order "On the transfer of a cost center" Gallery A3 "to new economic conditions," the last paragraph of which was to approve the Director-A3 Gallery Kopacheva V.V.Registratsiyu institutions in the room I passed without any problem.Etot Order 1992 is the basic document spelled in my new employment contract in 2012. So I think it would be nebylo exemption letter in '89, did not I would have checked himself in time 92, where there was A3 Gallery? Clearly gde.Uzhe in 1992 in the past history.
 Then there was the "epic" with a basement under the trade fair were located illegally zalom.Tam metal workshops Association "Zarubezhgeologiya" what has brought me to "intelligence", and it is our museum caretaker V.K.Sherzhukova (a veteran of work in the rear, now deceased). who lived in our yard galerei.Slesarya dostali.Oni really doing repair service of the Volga, is constantly used and Welding elektrosvarku.Vmeste with residents of the yard, we wrote to the Executive Committee, during its "life", but the organization "Zarubezhgeologiya" was cool and not penetration. Working alongside these workshops was choking on fumes nevozmozhno.Galereya acetylene and other stuff. Naively, I called sanitary and epidemiological stations, received from the head pozharnika.No Zarubezhgeologiya tov.Vulfs ... bribe the people responsible evaporated. By the fall of 92 I do nastochertelo. I wore a suit, "Pierre Cardin" tie coat "Barberis," and went to the ECD on Gogol bulvar.Zastal there DEZa chief, uncle 75.Sunul years on his desk a letter which I printed on a typewriter toyzhe "Yatran." The letter asked -understand on what basis .. in the basement of the gallery (of course it was a lie, is far from the gallery) are illegal metal workshops "Zarubezhgeologiya." Granddaddy when I call, knowing the phone memory for good reason, in Zarubezhgeologiya and frightened seen and said to them so that a 10-day period, they cleared out the basement. Of course they are, something terrible he tried to answer but it is well done, and threw up. The Chief Accountant of DEZa causes and gives her instructions to issue a contract with me to the basement Starokonyushenny 39, 154 sq.m.
 Then we put together pechati.No, it has not yet been sdelano.Uperlos, in agreeing the contract, while the Municipal Government established "Arbat." I came to R.Krylovu and asked for help from the Department of Culture and the Arts at TsAO.Krylov I phoned the head of the Municipal Management "Arbat" gosp.Povitskomu.Sostavili letter and I went to a "breakthrough" to Povitskomu.Tot sent me to gosp.Golovanovu, later Head of Justice "Arbat" in the dashing 90's. Golovanov said that from what they say, is the reason we are in the basement you'll give the Arbat. Do not argue, I became a Povitskomu returned and said that he was at Golovanov and everything is fine. Povitsky picked up and quickly signed dogovor.Ya matnul in their accounts, put the signature stamp and disappeared. Then, of course, still half a year taken out of the basement gallery Zarubezhgeologiya with their machines and two machines oborudovaniem.Vyvezli debris and dirt from svarki.Vse summer, on their own, without a penny cost money, do remont.Dalee two contracts combined and legally formalized in all Moskomimuschestve TsAO.Voobschem freebies not bylo.S sky svalilos.Mnogoe nothing good in the exhibition hall is described in the historical information on the official website of Gallery A3.Odno want skazat.Net Gallery A3 with delusions of grandeur, as it is today, says R.R.Krylov Iodko . I thank him for his help in the gallery, all now again fell on hard vremena.Odna only the computerization of the whole country is worth. Gallery A3 selflessly for the good works of art and let us calmly, without hysteria, to work on. We are their country and not betray the Arbat. Gallery for 25 years made more than 700 exhibitions and more than 2,000 artists participated in the projects gallery. In hundreds of directories Moscow artists listed in the exhibition entitled A3.Kto is crossed out, erased?

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Сообщение от Kirill Syzran ; 2120831"

We should not defend any one Galerius , and the whole country.
Do not write angry letters and signatures of officials to collect and take to the streets and change the power.
That I am not you specifically, Lucy, of course, is because I do - thinking out loud .

Cyril, let's talk about the topic of the situation that has developed with the common phrase A3.Zachem go ..