Letter from Kiev: "Will, abo Vsi ydut on x ..!"

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Interesting article on the site Openspace.ru (EA)
Catherine Tar · 13/11/2009
Young artists in the Ukraine are looking for a place among civilized Viktor Pinchuk and wild art market
It works. It - is advertising ......
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On weekends, a wide stream Kreschatik given to pedestrians, but now is cold and swine influenza, and the empty avenue walk only the wind and debris. Ironically, the availability of free space greater than the crowds of people, indicates the potential for democratic public life. In Kiev, she has a chance. В Москве ей быть просто негде.

In Ukraine, the elections soon, it is felt, the city politicized. Taxi drivers, however, say that Ukraine has all the time some sort of elections, and all had enough. We in Russia know how it ends.

Election posters issue familiarity with contemporary art. Billboards Arseniy Yatsenyuk, with a portrait of a young man in fashionable glasses, reminiscent of advertising men's clothing store in the style of Warhol's silk-screen, plus I can not accurately name a Ukrainian artist who has learned to designers of these posters. One of my friends wanted to vote for Yatseniuk as a Westerner, and seems to be more of his than others, but that suddenly disappeared all odds - just because of these posters. Installation of capitalism Ukrainian population accepts, but the capitalist in the face of Warhol's art - not yet.
In posters Yanukovych designers were limited by the fact that otfotoshopili his face to the state of leftover, something to make fun of the local English-language newspaper. People who read in English, to vote for Yanukovich will not. Aesthetics his old style and primitive. However, to my surprise, a young curator told me that in the present situation would prefer to Yanukovych. Indeed, Timoshenko - a typical post-Soviet version of the spread-capitalist nationalist, a pact with the West. West benefit local nationalisms. The young curator, they are disadvantageous: Tymoshenko, he believes, will introduce some moral or religious censorship, wanting to balance the unruliness of corporate capitalism strictly local morals ...
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