St. Petersburg artists sue Sergei Bugaev (Afrika)

[Кирилл Сызранский]

Artists Oleg Zaika, Evgeny Kozlov Oleg Maslov, Inal Savchenko Sergei Bugaev was charged with illegal possession of pictures of their authorship.

It's about 25 works made in the 1980s. The paintings that the artists were considered lost, were presented at the exhibition and in the catalog «ACCA: the latest generation of the Leningrad avant-garde» in May /June 2013 in the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts. Organizer - "Institute of the New Man" by Sergei Bugaev appearing in the catalog as "supervisor" of the exhibition. The exhibition "ACCA" led the famous St. Petersburg artists to go to court with a claim to Sergei Bugaev and the Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts for the recovery of works of art from illegal possession.

August 8 at 10:00 pm Dzerzhinsky district court of St. Petersburg (St. Rebellion, 38) in the first meeting will be to consider the claim Evgenij Kozlov (Judge Knyazev EO), and on August 12 at 10 hours 50 minutes. - A lawsuit O. Maslova, O. Bunny and I. Savchenkova (case № 2-1094/2013, Judge A. Isayev)

In 80th years of the plaintiffs artists exhibited their paintings together with Sergei Bugaev the exhibitions "New Artists" - the most famous of the Leningrad avant-garde. They showed both in Russia and abroad, including in Sweden, England, Denmark, USA. Many of the pictures presented in these exhibitions were not returned to their authors. Back in the 90s Fobo Hannelore, a German art historian and curator of the art Evgenij Kozlov, was actively engaged in the issue of his lost works, but the search has not yielded any results. Now, at the "ACCA" found five of these paintings, including the iconic portrait of George Guryanova 1988, painting about the size of 2,50 x 1 m

The fact that the process of canonization of creativity "new" has already started, indicate the exhibition at the Russian Museum in 2010 and at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art in 2012 This year, Yevgeny Kozlov became a member of the Venice Biennale. Consequently, prices are rising and the paintings of this period. Is characterized by the fact that neither the exhibition "ACCA", or in the catalog were not the names of the owners of the above pictures. Either way, the artists could not convince Sergei Bugaev voluntarily return their pictures, which would have the opportunity to avoid litigation. At their request, to talk to him an artist, art historian and chief curator of the Museum of Modern Art St. Petersburg State University Andrew Khlobystin, but Sergei Bugaev rejected the proposal. Thus, the cooperation that existed in the past artists ends litigation.

 Sergei "Africa" ​​Bugaev in the last election was a trustee of the candidate for the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.
March 3, 2011, he signed by the representative of the "public" information against the undermining of confidence in the judicial system of the Russian Federation.
So let's see if the thief will protect the judicial system of the Russian Federation.
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