Natalia Turnovsko: "To be free, it is necessary that you do not like"

[Евгений]

Kandinsky Prize finalist in the category "Project of the Year" (for a picturesque series of "diagnosis") is not hoped for a reward. For her important - part. May sound old-fashioned, but it's true. She always tells the truth, even about their secret fears and desires.

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  B: Natasha, I know that education you're a designer. However, this fashionable profession you basically never interested. Why?
 A: I graduated from Stroganovka, Faculty of Art Design. Now that's Faculty of Design. Then thereto was poluprezritelnoe attitude. White bone were considered artists. What is good design department? He was forced to think constructively. I chose it for one simple reason - he was the biggest. For each course recruited 38 people, therefore, the chances of admission increased. After graduating from Stroganov clearly knew that will not work in their specialty, will be an artist. I was assigned to VNIITE - Institute of Technical Aesthetics. I imagined how I would sit in the department from 9 to 18, drinking tea, scratching the language and do nothing, and even there not gone.
 Q: Are you a member of the Union of Artists?
 A: I became a member of the SC rather late, in 1998, when the age came from the youth section. I had to save the studio, and this must be a member. Came to the painting section, brought the most "realistic" work. The Commission looked at him so that was a full sense: they simply do not understand what they show. And this in 1998! I have not taken. I do not know what would be all over, if not for Ivan Lubennikov with which we have participated in one exhibition in London for ten years before that. In 1998, he was chairman of the monumental section of CX. I called Ivan and asked me what to do. He said: "Come to us, we have people of sound mind." So I became a member of the monumental section.
 Q: What is the picture started its way into contemporary art?
 A: For a long time worked with the "Regina" in 1990. The first exhibition of "Regina" was mine. She opened gallery, then on the Transfiguration. But what is interesting: A few years ago, Vladimir Ovcharenko, was interviewed by Victor Misiano on the history of the gallery and said, "Regina" began an exhibition of Boris Orlov. I was surprised. Firstly, all documented. Secondly, Vladimir remembers the first exhibition. You can forget the third, fourth, but the first ever. It turned out that the Eagles opened a gallery, and then led Bulatov, Kabakov, me. But it was all quite the opposite. I am currently working with a gallery Krokin ......
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