Exhibition of paintings canceled because of the portrait of Putin and Obama.
samovar Vova and Obama.
Kirov prohibited exhibition with ironic portraits of Putin and Medvedev.
Manual of the Kirov Regional Library Herzen canceling the July 30 opening of the exhibition of local artist-primitivist, a member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia Vladimir Usatova "With greetings from Vyatka. The grounds were two pictures: "Breakfast in the Russian style," which depicts Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama, and President of Vyatka "with Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev and the Governor of the Kirov region Nikita White.
In May, the library director Hope Gur'yanova postponed the scheduled opening of the exhibition Usatova "Be brave, people soon summer!" at the end of July. But when Usatov the end of July came in the Local History Department, to hang pictures, head of the department told him: "Paintings" President in Vyatka "and" Breakfast in the Russian style, "we do not assume a policy we do not need."
As commented by the artist himself, "The President in Vyatka" - is an ironic image of the May visit of Dmitry Medvedev in Kirov. A "Breakfast in the Russian style" is devoted to the recent meeting between Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama in the Novo-Ogarevo: both are smiling on the table - an egg stuffed with caviar, ravioli of quail and the samovar with a boot. The composition was inspired by the photographs in the press, in the name of Putin used the phrase, Obama said: "We have prepared for you breakfast in the Russian style."
To ban the two "political" paintings Gur'yanova added refusal to participate in the presentation of "scandalous", in its opinion, poets Vjatsky literary club "Free verse". As a result, the exhibition was aborted - and, as said Usatov, forever.
Ivan Izmailov.
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