Artists exhibited protection CHA
At the Crimean Val appeared snowmen and posters.
The newspaper Kommersant »№ 33 (4088) on 25/02/2009
Capital artists have raised the housing issue to the head Moscomarchitecture Alexander Kuzmin
In building the Central House of Artists (CHA) held a protest against plans for the reconstruction of the capital mayoralty. Capital artists stick snowmen, to "hold" posters "Well done, Meadow, demolition, and the artist - suction". And after the posters have snowmen seized by militiamen, on the contrary CHA began the rally, which gathered demanded "to save the territory of art" from the capital's Mayor Yuri Luzhkov.
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Yesterday rally near the Central House of Artists on the Crimean Val took two hours before the public hearing at which residents of the region Yakimanka be submitted CHA reconstruction project, involving the demolition was built in 1979 the building. In front of the artists blinded dozen skinny snowmen, each of which supplied a banner demanding to stop the demolition or curses to the city authorities. In this case the posters were signed by their authors, for example, the painter Herman Vinogradov put a visa on the grounds that "Yuri Luzhkov - uklyuzhy thief and Rostislav Lebedev - under the banners" meadow hapnuv CHA, you will not be honest and do not need culture, painting, sculpture, business needs a strong but more cap. Group has provided its GHG snowman poster "Well done, Meadow, demolition, and the artist - suction". "Artists - the people dispersed, but when a raider is now seizing the building, even the snowmen are opposed to this," - explained to Kommersant the meaning of the action painter Nikolai Polissky. Installation, however, has survived and 15 minutes. From riding up a police Gazelle unloaded law enforcement officials, who, after a police colonel, that the posters were not, but snegovichki beautiful, let them stand, began to collect seditious propaganda. Policemen at the same time did not detain anyone, and some even apologized to the artists, giving, for example, Mr. Vinogradov was to tell the fate of the CHA building with a banner in his hands and only then politely removed his.
At this time, Gorky Park, opposite the CHA began the authorized rally, organized by the Committee for the Protection of the territory of art, which was created by artists in protest against the demolition of the building. Under the slogans "Do not give investment program to push through culture" and "appetite landlords - anorexia, were about 100 people. "For Luzhkov's the main thing - greed. If he was offered good money, he agrees to demolish the Town Hall" - formulated the general idea of the picket, the representative of the initiative groups of Moscow Gennady Borcheev. As a result, organizers of the rally demanded "not to put the question of culture in the country's dependence on commercial structures and to conduct an open competition" for the reconstruction of the building. Rally near the building's own CHA and activists have attempted to Yabloko, but to deploy its symbolism did not give them policemen.
Recall that the scandal surrounding the building of the Central House of Artists (60%of it is the Tretyakov Gallery, 40%- International Confederation of Unions of Artists) began in March last year. Then the wife of Mr. Luzhkov, head of Inteko Elena Baturin presented a construction project on the site of CHA buildings "Orange" by architect Norman Foster. After her appeal to the Government of Russia has established a commission, supervised by Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, who was supposed to reconcile the interests of the Tretyakov Gallery, CHA and the City Hall. But then Mrs. Baturin has distanced itself from the project, Lord Foster, has closed its office in Russia, and the public was presented to another project involving the construction of on-site CHA 17-storey business center, against which they rebelled and artists. Last week, Veronica Sukoyan, daughter of the author's original draft CHA Nicholas Sukoyan, filed documents in the Heritage Committee to recognize the building of a monument of architecture and thus prevent its demolition.
Meanwhile, for reasons of public hearings on the fate of CHA artists themselves are not particularly believe. Note that even though their conduct is regulated by the Urban Planning Code, but the result of the hearing was "advisory" status, that is, the authorities are free to dispose of, or not to take into account comments made during this debate. "Hearings laid hold, and that's performed to confirm the right to property. We no longer hope to nesolidarnost in power", - explained to Kommersant yesterday before hearing the artist Nikolai Polissky. However, the first deputy head of the press service of Moscow's mayor Leonid Krutakov assured Kommersant that the hearing is present chapter Moscomarchitecture Alexander Kuzmin, and "this is the most striking evidence that these hearings are very important:" Naturally, both the government and the mayor will listen to view Muscovites. " The hearing yesterday continued till late evening.
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