Photos from the rally in support of Andrei Erofeev, and Yuri Samodurov

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It is hard to say what they were statements each of these artists in the individual (it would be absurd to represent them as a kind of total mass, the artist - to identify individuals). But there is that exists independently of the artist is in its creativity. This - the spiritual atmosphere of society, in which he resides, and no-yes-no, but at least one hundred and do not refrain from its reflection, if it is, of course, foresight and sincerity. Artist's ulterior motive is often compared it with the healers, diagnose a society in which they live. I do not justify (and would be in what) and certainly not defending the participants of the exhibition "Forbidden Art". I am far from thinking that the imperative desire of a PR drive for loans in the ratings, and even more so - a desire to offend the feelings of believers (and anyone else's in general). At the core of the exhibition and the priority was the motive which has suffered the study of society through honest trepanation its controversial ins and outs, identification of new meanings that have emerged recently as a result of vzaimodiffuzirovaniya new and old values in a much-changed over the years the society. And their long self-fulfilling phenomenon becomes particularly evident when comparing it artistic character. To see these changes and refleksirovat them - a position for a modern artist frankly weak, unfounded and unjustified.
Of course, quite naturally, in such cases and the reaction of that part of society was not ready to accept the realities visualized. But, in the history of art - it is too long since passed stage. If you recall, for example, the reaction of the French Impressionists at the establishment, some of which even the art critics likened to a piece of rotting meat, or the famous saying of Alexandre Dumas Gustave Courbet: - "From what the monster could happen this bastard by the name of Gustave Courbet? Under any cap on a manure pile, poured with a mixture of wine, beer, poisonous saliva and stinking phlegm, sprang this blower and hairy gourd, the belly, pretending to be a man and artist, is the embodiment of idiotic and impotent "I"? "(Below I have put works by Courbet, an unprecedented annoyed in those years is best known for its frivolous customs of French society, women's genitals in the painting "The Origin of the World" shocked even highly advanced lovers of realistic painting, and painting itself, being written in 1866, became the first open to the public only at the end of the twentieth century, and now she ekcponiruetsya Museum d'Orsay in Paris) - then it becomes obvious that all these precedents are the essence of reflection from the society itself processes. But the underlying processes, and therefore not always understandable and accessible to the superficial glance of a philistine. What an artist of genius, so relentless it to the public. Such is his fate, so his cross. But the artist, that's what an artist that is, perhaps, to his unconscious sometimes unfortunately, in the vanguard. And the attitude towards him at all times been, in general, identical, with some difference. Passed the century, or even less, and most had already left the earthly vale misunderstood outcasts, they are shaded with a light hand descendants became classics. Pushkin - our all. But after the collapse of the Soviet Union - now and Malevich, with an "antihristskim" black square.
Lord, believe me, in Russia, at times, far more interesting than the prosperous West. This country has experienced one of the worst tragedies of Anthropological that began last century with the war against the red white. A century later, echoes similar proitvopostavleny with individual elements of the ideological level viewed until now. Maybe because something is unsatisfactory and more. I understand the genesis of the conflict generated by this exhibition on a common platform. But do not castigate unseemly organizers and artists "Forbidden Art" at the forum, where dwells not there an art community easiest would see hudozhestvennosmyslovuyu are cautious and priventivnymi measures furnished work.