53rd Venice Biennale. "Victory over the future. Tales of Italy

[Vladimir]

First, the curator of Russian Pavilion Olga Sviblova reported the situation. According to the press - a success. By the number of references: Molodkin - 125, Ostrecov - 28, Pepperstein - 41, Kalima -92. In addition to all Russian leader on quoting the illustrative material - it's painful to us spectacular pictures.
And all was decorous, noble and dull, until the word did not take art Tar:

- In recent years the territory of art included many people not from the scientific environment
.... They can not blame the fact that these people were much more understandable public relations laws than laws of art as a critical intellectual activity.

It's hard to imagine the curator said in a speech as Olga Sviblova. Mentions in the press - it is positive. But it seems to me that the curator of Russian Pavilion should not talk about it. He must put a completely different problem. Not every organization of exhibitions is coaching. Supervision - is the production of meanings, intellectual work. The purpose of curatorial work can not be promotion of anything there. Whether it's the brand of the artist or brand of contemporary art in general. We are a mixture of everything. The curator does not dare to explain to the sponsor that the task of the exhibition is not promotion, and artistic.
An aggressive public relations policy leads to pressure on the criticism. It seems that if progress is being made in the promotion, the critical statement is impossible. I think this is absolutely unacceptable.