Extremism in the Hermitage

[Konstantin]

check the Hermitage of St. Petersburg prosecutor's office. Prosecutor's concern aroused by British scientists show the Chapman Brothers. Exhibition visitors complained that the show blasphemous. The prosecutor's office will check the Hermitage on extremism.

"This is the cultural degradation of our society. Donosnoe This use of public opinion. Nothing sacrilegious not here, and the apparent desire to spoil the mood in the city is, - quotes" Interfax "Hermitage director Mikhail Piotrovsky. - The prosecutor's office has received many complaints . People think that desecrated a Christian cross that the exhibition to him nailed makdonaldsky clown and a teddy bear. came to us from the prosecution and conduct the test. Maybe they still make a decision that we are extremists. "

Michael Piotrowski wrote a letter to the Prosecutor General of Russia, in which he asked to take action to museum workers and prosecutors did not interfere with work. "Art is not art or decides Museum. Dictate the rules so you can not way street" - said Piotrowski.

Hermitage director proposed a conference on "Blasphemy in the world of art." He also proposed to invite the Cossacks to those guarding the conference.

Hermitage Museum opened an exhibition of two British artists Jake and Dinos Chapman, who belong to the group of Young British Artists "(YBA, Young British Artists).

Exhibition of works by Chapman brothers opened in late October in the walls of the East Wing of the General Staff. Exhibition "Jake and Dinos Chapman. Ends fun" is not recommended for people under 18 years of age. The exhibition will run until 13 January 2013.

Central work of the exhibition "The end of fun" - a three-dimensional collage composed of miniature plastic figurines placed in nine glass cases. Shop windows are located in the space of the room so that the top of their overall shape resembles a swastika. In the windows of a single deployed landscape of hell, in which the Nazis with brutal cruelty constantly killing each other.

According to the artist, the work captures just one moment: everything that happens behind the glass is made in the same time. Like the old archivists Kunstkammer, Chapman brothers 'locked' into the capsule self-enjoyment fascist barbarism. Placing cruelty sealed museum showcases, dioramas, artists seeking to heal from her society.

Also the works of "The End of fun," "hurt, hurt, to injure," "The horrors of war."

Presented at the exhibition brings together works of Chapman brothers genre "scourge of war", first announced in the art in the famous eponymous series of etchings by Francisco Goya. Hermitage, which are stored in the collection and the work of Goya, put them next to the contemporary works of Chapman.

As one well-known character: - "Things are moving ladies and gentlemen of the jury ..."
And yet the same M. Piotrowski said:

Hermitage director Mikhail Piotrovsky said that Madonna's speech, which will be held on August 2 at the Palace Square in St. Petersburg, should not be a blasphemy, informs "Lenta.ru" with reference to RIA "Novosti ".

According to Piotrowski, guide located on Palace Square Hermitage requires assurances that Madonna will do without blasphemy. "Although it can be called a violation of freedom of speech, but we have at Palace is an angel with a cross," - said the director of the museum.

The irony of fate?