Photo: Exhibition of nominees "Kandinsky Prize-2008"

[IrinaC]

article published yesterday in the Art Newspaper, by John Varoli


"Modernists pushing Russia into a hellish darkness"

December 8 Belyaev-Gintovt izvsten was only a small circle of people close to modern art
But for one night the artist became known for the masses, to the fore. "Before I visited the site several hundred people a day, now receives thousands"
The journalist was invited by the artist in his three-room apartment in a working-class district of Moscow. (in my view a further description of this branchy cranberries for foreign journalists-IC)
The wall of one room is decorated with print 19 th century "Napoleon at Waterloo" and the slogan: "Workers of all countries merged. Bust of Lenin on the shelf. Simple furniture and an Iranian chair the 18 th century, of which the artist says: "My Eurasian throne" a video film was Stalin takes the parade of athletes in 1937
"Look at these faces. I want to make a parade of the Eurasian and the future in its 15 large-scale works reflect the aesthetics of the Stalinist period."

Belyaev-Gintovt not hide his sympathy for the Stalinist period, but feels insecure when it comes to criticism of the dictator. "Members of my family were in the NKVD and the gulag"

"My style combines the time and place, to grant the Eurasian ideals. Art in Russia has always been part of society. And I'm epicenter perestroichnogo movement

Belyaev-Gintovt said that contemporary art in Russia in the hands of "totalitarian sects" and the modernists pushing Russia into a hellish darkness

"The controversy about my art is a classic dispute between the painters and iconoclasts. They want to destroy the holy images, and I want to glorify them. There is a big battle for Russia's future, my prize Kandinskogo showed that my opponents have lost their primary battle"

To date, the primary task of the artist considers the promotion of its Eurasian ideas. But on the merits of these ideas are giving way Russia from the West to East, seeking to revive the Empire
It is also the artist remarked that in his art, he deliberately jeering and provokes its critics and detractors ultra.
After such a declaration is the question, whatever the artist says about ideology, it is serious or tricks of the trade