24894567 Art group "War" was expelled from the short list Award "Innovation"
The work of art group "War" "X * k in the thrall of the KGB" is excluded from the list of nominees VI competition in the field of contemporary visual art "Innovation". This was reported in a press release on the site of the award. This was because the organizing committee was unable to obtain the consent of activist group to participate in the contest. On the contrary, explained in a message on the site of a number of media publications, it became clear that no member of the "war" did not give such consent. On February 14, 2011 organizers have repeatedly appealed to the applicants, members of the Advisory Board of the competition Arseny Sergeyev and Yevgeny Umansky, asking you to confirm acceptance of art group, but no reply received. In addition, the organizing committee asked the ideology of "War" by Alexei Plutsera-Sarno provide visual documentation of the project for display at an exhibition of nominees, but he also did not answer. "In connection with the foregoing, the organizers of the All-Russian competition in the field of contemporary visual art" Innovation "was only possible in this situation, the decision to delete the work of art group" War "" A member of a prisoner of the KGB of the number of customers eligible to participate in the contest, and as a consequence, the list of nominees, "- emphasized in a press release. Earlier Plutser-Sarno described the award "Innovation", "mafia money power, which throws them as a sop to the feeder artists. He expressed gratitude to those who nominated the work of the "war", but called on "all the curators to leave the jury award and the advisory council and say the current government its 'No,'". Plutser-Sarno stated that the government wants to "put the art community to its knees", pointing to the arrest of two activists of the "war" Oleg Vorotnikov and Leonid Nikolayev. February 21 and 22 young people arrested for another campaign of "War", were released on bail. Action "X * nd in the thrall of the KGB, was held in St. Petersburg on the night of June 15, 2010. Activists of the art group drew on the Foundry Bridge enormous phallus. When the bridge lit, an image appeared before the windows of the local FSB office. Award "Innovation" was established by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the National Centre of Contemporary Art. Note that in the short-list of awards fell Project Monctratsiya-2010 Novosibirsk artist Artem Loskutov, who also has some friction with the police.
