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September 29, 2010

The Louvre will decide on Thursday or Friday of the problem with the display of the Russian exhibition "Counterpoint: Contemporary Russian Art", from which the decision of the Ministry of Culture of Russia expelled four works by the artist Avdei Ter-Oganyan, RIA Novosti reports, citing the press service of the museum.
Recall, an exhibition of Russian art to be revealed on October 14 at the Louvre in the Year of Russia and France.
Earlier it was reported that Rosokhrankultura, administered by the Ministry of Culture of Russia, did not allow to be exported from Russia to France four of Avdei Ter-Oganyan a series of "radical abstraction, originally selected to be shown at Paris exhibition curator Marie-Laure Bernadac. In response, eight exhibitors refused to participate in it, among them, Vitaly Komar, Diana Machulina, Yuri Albert, Igor Makarevich, and others.

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"The decision will be no earlier than Thursday-Friday. Curated by Marie-Laure (Bernadac) had not yet returned to the Louvre, we are waiting when she comes. We know that the four paintings by Ter-Oganyan not allowed in France, but the Louvre is not solved the problem, "- said the agency interlocutor.
Louvre know that other artists have expressed solidarity with the Ter-Oganyan, but does not comment on the decision of Russians.
Moreover, the museum could not yet say will be an exhibition or not. "Right now we do not know, but this question is not posed. We are trying to solve a problem with a delay of four paintings," - said the representative of the Louvre. According to her, the exhibition has not yet arrived at the museum, whereas previously the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation reported that the exhibition is sent to Paris.
For his part, General Commissioner of the Year of Russia and France, Nicolas Shibaev hopes that the exhibition will feature all the declared product.
"We work closely with the Louvre that this show was. I hope that we will hold an exhibition of the way it was conceived, with the works of artists - as Ter-Oganyan, and the other" - said Shibaev.
He noted that the final decision on holding the exhibition remains with the Louvre. According to the Commissioner, the museum will decide what priority: the organization of the exhibition or the presence of her works Ter-Oganyan.
"The exhibition was organized by the Louvre. I'm working on so that all events are cross-Year Program passed the way they were conceived by the organizers," - said Shibaev.
The exhibition "Counterpoint: Contemporary Russian Art" also includes the works of Yuri Albert, Alexander Brodsky, Eric Bulatov, Olga Chernysheva, Emilia and Ilya Kabakov, Alexei Kallima, Valery Koshlyakov, Yuri Leiderman, Diana Machulin, Andrew's Monastery, St. Paul Pepperstein, Vadim Zakharov , Igor Makarevich and Elena Yelagina, Komar and Melamid, the group "Blue Noses and AES + F, and Vladimir Dubosarsky and Alexander Vinogradov

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