Photo: Exhibition of nominees "Kandinsky Prize-2008"

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Сообщение от Vladimir

I think that it's not far off. "Metallica" and a symphony orchestra, "Stones" on the best scenes. Protest today things may become a classic. The scandalous work "Blue Noses" does not cause me nothing but smiles. But it should be understood that the people went to take a bold step with all the odds get into trouble. I. .. 20 years in the books on Russian art of turn of the millennium will be referred to "blue noses" (not to trahychem on the sofas, but at least with the "era of mercy"). Do you have any doubts about this?

That's what I wrote years ago about the exhibition "Sots Art" is one of the leading French critics, Olivier Sung. As always, there are factual errors, but in my opinion, in fact he's right, art, reduced to jokes, interesting.

Magazine «Télérama»

Chronicle Olivier Sung

In a letter dated June 23, 1970, Gustave Courbet refused the Legion of Honor, which was going to reward him, Maurice Richard, the then Minister of Fine Arts of the Second Empire, explaining his decision that "the state incompetent in the field of art." In Courbet, as we know, the reason to be dissatisfied with the official bodies involved in both the arts and politics of the country, because they disapproved of his paintings - and judging by the facial expression of our current president during his visit to Courbet exhibition at the Grand Palais , we can state that the situation has hardly changed. Hence, politics and art coexist bad. You could even say it - two very different concepts of peace: for politics, humanity - it is mass, and for art, a collection of personalities, politics, appeals to all, and art - each one of us.

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, however, that if a state incompetent in the field of art, the art of incompetent policy, as for the artists, their competence in the policy is the competence of ordinary simple citizen, no more and no less.
Stalin's Soviet Union is a historic example of the incompetence of the state of art. Idiotic realism, an imposed government, abruptly broke an incredible flowering of art, created by avant-garde - Malevich, Kandinsky, Larionov and Tatlin. Had to wait 1972 to see the protest movement, a social art, the Russian equivalent of Western pop art.
Naturally, social art was not attacking the consumer society, not existed in the USSR. His target, the objects of his sarcasm were some already rather tired of heroes (Lenin, Stalin) and the disintegration of the system. Playing the naive artists Sots Art pretending committed conformists, right up to the absurd - as Komar and Melamid have eaten "the truth" as the newspaper claimed on the distribution of "spiritual food", and Ilya Kabakov has created collages of images from the official stupid descriptive captions. As to Pierre Dac, they decided to laugh at all this. But this position appeals to the grotesque has not disappeared with the fall of the Berlin Wall. And now young artists use it - for example, the group Blue Noses, which created the video with the school humor - a cross between Dada and Monty Python. Comedy of the absurd where less subtle, it is a slap in the forehead, it has more tricks - in fact, it is more consistent with the vulgarity of our world. Harassment over the corpse of the Soviet Union, like the American art market, but not enough to make out of this humiliation of art. If we ignore the political dimension, shape Sots Art often banal, follow the path of greatest lightness (collages), coarse, close to the advertising and illustration.
Leonid Sokov, genus. In 1941 and lives in New York since 1980, one of osonovolozhnikov Sots Art, has the only undisputed talent of the sculptor. In one of his installations, sculptures shadow of the twentieth century (2000), under a glass cover reproductions of hundreds gathered miniatyurizivrovannye most important sculptures of the last century, Giacometti, Moore, Duchamp, Brancusi, etc.
As for Russian art, it stopped at the construction Tatlin, from 30-ies it is absent. In the state of art is not only incompetent, it is destructive.