"Bulldozer Exhibition" - 35

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And talking about it on tsenralnom television channel! Ours, not American. Everything has changed so much thanks to you, dear participants of the exhibition. I wish you many years of creative and worthy successors to the traditions!
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Not socialist realists - not exhibited. Is not exposed - not the artist. No artist - came under the decree of parasitism. This was in the 74-m. Oscar Rabin and twelve other authors, that are listed in this invitation, they struggled for their professional status. And for the viewer.
"I even said: bring me, I say, to the extent that razrisuyu coat, and I will be out of a bar with their own pictures to represent" - talks about those times the artist Vladimir Nemukhin.
Vladimir Nemukhin remembers with Oscar Rabin and Alexander Glaser went to the city administration for permission to put up for Belyaev wasteland.

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"We have deployed the picture, have earned the bulldozers. Until now, it amazes me how they have moved. The cabin had two: bulldozer, but with someone else," - remembers the events of "Bulldozer Exhibition", included Vladimir Bortko in the film "Once lied, Nemukhin Vladimir.
Bulldozer hitting authorities artists still cause for speculation and conspiracy thinking of ingenious PR.
"Such a number of correspondents, cameras do not lead to a very friendly event - this should be a very great master!" - Notes art critic Andrey Kovalev.
Who would this wizard may be, a report on the physical extermination of art decorated the next day, not only The New York Times. Those who just do not fall under the bulldozer blade, sensed a change of fate.
"Someone was taken to the station, but beyond that totalitarian idiocy was a joy to oppose this idiocy," - recalls the artistic director of the National Center for Contemporary Art Leonid Bazhanov.
Bulldozer gave reverse. Two weeks after the incident, the authorities allowed Belaiev exhibition in Izmailovo.
"We have achieved more than the exhibit," - says Vladimir Nemukhin.
It was discovered in a picturesque section of the city committee schedules, which were held permanent exhibitions, and informal art has ceased to be informal.
"Bulldozer Exhibition" - a symbol of the unique socio-cultural situation in which art is essentially non-political, and suddenly acquired a political weight and social significance. To consumers of art to realize he is a citizen and now have to go to extreme measures.
In the project "You're under arrest" (A. Galkin, D. Ter-Oganyan) artists put the executive and consumers of art to one another. No bulldozers, no media at this time did not happen, the action passed unnoticed. Today on the spot profsredy - market. Even young and left exposed in expensive galleries. They have to maneuver between the official and unofficial art.
"If you only formal, then you assign a gallery, puts on a contract, if you are in the underground - you just do not have, does not exist", - tells about the realities of the art market artist David Ter-Oganyan.
Since the Bulldozer Exhibition system has changed, but the struggle of the artist's right to be heard has not lost drama.

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Thirty-five years dozer misunderstanding
Today's hip to be dissent, though often it simply means outrageous
2009-09-14 /Daria Kurdyukova - art critic.

Tomorrow marks 35 years Bulldozer Exhibition. Strangely enough, today, besides the exhibition "tractor" in Krokin-gallery is not provided, it seems, no special events to recall the artistic impression.
Vacant lot in Belyaevo at the intersection of Trade Union and streets Ostrovitjanova. Oscar and Alexander Rabin, Vladimir Nemukhin, Eugene Rukhin, Lydia Masterkova, Komar and Melamid ... Aggressive "show" greening and devaluation, which then press somehow transformed in the bulldozers. Missing picture. Beaten foreign journalists. Home press conference in the apartment of Alexander Glezer. The arrest of several members. Scheduled for September 29 - authorized (!) - Exhibition in Izmailovo. After 4 years, 78-m, one of the initiators and the main actors Bulldozer - Oscar Rabin and his family removed from the country: they simply can not be allowed to return from the French tours, depriving citizenship. But she Belyaevskaya exhibition was creaking groan of a key in the rusty lock. It became clear that with the unofficial art authorities will have to reckon with.
Actually, after all, what is now called the unofficial art, non-conformism and dissent, even in hard, made the then Government, and made their own hands. Same Rabin had not declared himself a dissident and dissenting. History, received a new turn in the September 74 th, begins, it seems, even in the late 50's, and it is linked not only with participants dozer scandal.

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In 1957 Rabin took part in the exhibition of young artists in the Festival of Youth and Students, to invent some social themes, and have on display a monotype with a bouquet. In Manege he exhibited, but a milestone for all was eloquent remark of Khrushchev at the Manege Exhibition 1962, which clearly held abroad incomprehensible power, and thus, ill. This is a complex and fears. The so-called edict of parasitism 61-second allowed the deal not only with Brodsky, but drew a bad term, and those who, for example, not one of the ranks of creative unions. For parasitism in 65-m condemned and exiled journalist Andrei Amalrik. After Bulldozer Exhibition reception and tried to Rabin, but he was arrested for parasitism in 1977 for two days and released, apparently already having in mind future reprisals.
Before bulldozers artists showing in the Moscow City Council sent a letter notifying that they want to hold an exhibition - no conspiracy they had not. Authorities advised of the evasively venture to refuse, but the ban is not imposed. Bulldozer Exhibition proved to be an alternative course of action and socialist-realist art and political action. The experience was a success: he showed that other art is not only interested audience, but also effectively operate the distribution channels. And it is easier to give new artists to exhibit officially. So then were allowed 75-second exhibition in the pavilion "Beekeeping" and in DC at VDNH.
Went crystallization began in the late 60's image-text revels conceptualists, sots-artists, art groups and the multiplication of forms of discourse. That the art of the communist world shrinks to the size of communal microcosm extended apartment exhibitions, instead of distributing call-obschesovetskih slogans appealed to the neighbors (as Kabakov in his release), prepared according to recipes Komar and Melamid's "truthful" burgers from the newspaper, doing it was judged the overall performances of "collective Action "... process is gaining momentum.

Today dissenter to be fashionable, although it does not always mean real political urgency of the utterance. Irony is often replaced Engendering shock and revulsion - he quickly break through. Now the government zealously welcome those who had zealously drove: a 2006-m Rabin returned the passport and the nationality of Russia, began to organize the exhibition - a very high quality, but so obsessed with loud ... now the question of the demolition of CHA-GTG temporarily frozen because of the crisis, and in February, the day of public hearings, shortly after the artists picketers put their slogans, the police gathered and carried placards. But still - in the State Center of Contemporary Art is carried out the research project "Russian art-exile today. And all this can be discussed in the context of the Bulldozer Exhibition.