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What actually happened, judging by the Chronicle news? Acting Minister of Culture of the Perm Territory Igor Gladnev his decree dismissed the director of the Perm Museum of Contemporary Art (PERMM) Marat Gelman. According to the law officer had the right to do so without giving a reason - however, one of his predecessors Nicholas Beginners finds it unacceptable that the official was deciding what kind of culture is needed, and the edge of the city. At the same time intervened, as usual, the DA office in connection with the treatment of several members of the Legislative Assembly edge, she began to find out, not too much is spent on gelmanovsky Arts Festival "White Nights in Perm" and in general - not too much money in the budget spending Gelman. Surfaced at the same time, of course, the ubiquitous extremism ...

What happened in reality? Patience officials ran out after two shows - one of which was devoted to "swamp" the events of the other Sochi Olympics, presented in a very ironic way. It was hot: the actual art officials, of course, do not understand, but tolerated, but hitting the party and the government will not allow under any circumstances.

Then, as they are usually on time, local intellectuals warning in advance: most proven many decades of its representatives sent to the authorities handling: do over, how can I endure? Again, it is time to put forward Culture financial flows at the channel through which they flow in dogelmanovskuyu era? At the time of the previous governor Oleg Chirkunova then Minister of Culture, Boris Milgram, together with Gelman threw it relevant foreign anti-national and even an art. Milgram not - is not it time to get out and Gelman? .. And it was removed.

But can we assume that finished with all that emerged in the cultural Perm in the last five years?

Start with the museum PERMM. It is available in the budget money, no one closes. Governor Victor Basargin yet at all speaks cautiously: he Gelman with different views on art, but that is not the case, and only in the financing ... That is spin flavor side bosses are not in a hurry: not in his superiors, to raise the interest of another political-aesthetic scandal. The one who will appoint after Gelman, unlikely to be able to repurpose PERMM a museum of local handicrafts or provincial art gallery - it just will not work, and, most of all, this position is unlikely to take a man cave views. And the festival "White Nights", who was involved in the exhibition scandal, the authorities want to extend for another month. That is, Gelman was removed, and the cream of his offspring still shoot.

The provincial cultural environment in many Soviet and contemporary art, introduced vigorously and impudently, had to face - and collided. Otherwise could not be. If this is not met resistance, it is not new. In Perm, Gelman project was extremely successful: it has evolved through the resistance. The reason - Marat Gelman uses in the agency's management strategy of the contemporary art. Therefore, it is doomed to success. He did it to attract the officials when it all began, in 2008, it came out and fought so long - now, apparently, will formally leave without leaving ideologically. He rejects the large-scale compromises aggravates any situation, thus attracting public attention to it, and wins in all modern law of general public and art - in particular.

Now, after a scandal over politically incorrect exhibitions, Gelman spoke about censorship - and the government will have to make excuses. The more power is justified, the better for him. This proves that the Gelman can not be removed from office. Since the position from him - Gelman.
  

Alexander Kabakov
Head of the Department of Culture